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for the week ending Sunday 21 November
- The announcement of Prince William’s engagement to Kate swamped main and celebrity news
- Ireland’s debt crisis came the the fore of political and financial news
- A re-occurrence of human bird flu, an impending North-South Korean conflict, and riots in Haiti received little coverage
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Covered lots
- Prince William and Kate Middleton, announcing their engagement after 8 years of courtship, 411 articles
- Ireland’s debt crisis, with the Euro country reluctantly accepting an EU bailout, 285 articles
- The Nato summit in Lisbon, where members discussed Afghanistan, Russia, arms control, and the Turkey (Nato) Cyprus (EU) veto problem, 119 articles
Covered little
- Riots in Haiti against UN peacekeepers, accused by locals of bringing cholera to the country, 16 articles
- North and South Korea on the brink of conflict, but still with little coverage despite growing rumblings on their border, 15 articles
- First human case of bird flu in seven years, diagnosed in Hong Kong last week, 6 articles
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- David Cameron: 560 articles (+6% on previous week)
- George Osborne: 153 articles (+11% on previous week)
- Nick Clegg: 138 articles (123% on previous week)
- Gordon Brown: 130 articles (+19% on previous week)
- Tony Blair: 110 articles (+24% on previous week)
- Ed Miliband: 109 articles (+30% on previous week)
- Vince Cable: 98 articles (-5% on previous week)
- Michael Gove: 66 articles (+3% on previous week)
- William Hague: 65 articles (+25% on previous week)
- Theresa May: 65 articles (+171% on previous week)
Celebrity vs serious
- Nutritionist Gillian McKeith on TV show ‘I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here’, 67 articles vs. Britons Paul and Rachel Chandler freed after being held for 13 months by Somali pirates, 50 articles
- X Factor contestant Wagner Carrilho, 44 articles vs. flooding in Cornwall, 42 articles
- Film star Daniel Radcliffe and the latest Harry Potter movie, 41 articles vs. millions of pounds of government compensation to go to British Guantanamo detainees, 27 articles
Who wrote a lot about…’Ireland’s debt crisis’
Henry McDonald – 9 articles (The Guardian), John Murray Brown – 9 articles (Financial Times), Peter Spiegel – 7 articles (Financial Times), Rachel Cooper – 7 articles (Daily Telegraph), David Oakley – 6 articles (Financial Times), Elena Moya – 6 articles (The Guardian)
Long form journalism
- 5,745 words: ‘Why are Asian women aspiring to Western ideals of beauty?’ – Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, The Independent, 20th November 2010
- 4,285 words: ‘Afghanistan: can aid make a difference?’ – Jonathan Steele, The Guardian, 19th November 2010
- 3,470 words: ‘Who was Gareth Williams?’ – Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy, The Guardian, 20th November 2010