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Student protests, Korean clashes, & lots of snow

For the week ending Sunday 28 November:

• Snow coated the news as well as the country;
• Students continued to occupy on-campus departments and the headlines;
• A brewing North Korea and South Korea conflict drew attention away from a deadly stampede in Cambodia, strikes in Portugal, and violence in Rio.

Covered lots

• Snow, with school, work and road closures as lots it began to cover lots of the UK, 229 articles;
• More student protests, including school pupils marching on Whitehall, wrecking a police van and constrained by kettling, 187 articles;
• North Korea and South Korea, with the North firing across the western sea border killing two civilians and two soldiers last week, 174 articles.

Covered little

• A stampede at a water festival in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, killing over 350 people, 21 articles;
• Workers holding austerity protests in Portugal, said to be the first general strike action in over two decades, 16 articles;
• Three teenage boys adrift in the Pacific Ocean for 50 days, rescued off Fiji, 6 articles;
• First successful libel action brought against the Press Complaints Commission, with its chair apologising in a high court and paying damages, 2 articles.

Political ups and downs (top 10 by number of articles)

• David Cameron: 565 articles (+1 per cent on previous week);
• George Osborne: 231 articles (+11 per cent on previous week);
• Nick Clegg: 199 articles (-23 per cent on previous week);
• Ed Miliband: 183 articles (+30 per cent on previous week);
• Gordon Brown: 147 articles (+19 per cent on previous week);
• Michael Gove: 136 articles (+3 per cent on previous week);
• Tony Blair: 125 articles (+24 per cent on previous week);
• Vince Cable: 119 articles (-5 per cent on previous week);
• Theresa May: 86 articles (+171 per cent on previous week).

Celebrity vs serious

Bishop Pete Broadbent‘s comment on Prince William’s marriage to Kate Middleton not lasting more than 7 years, 29 articles vs. Tory peer Howard Flight‘s comment on welfare changes encouraging poorer classes to breed, 33 articles.

Simon Cowell, X Factor judge, 94 articles vs. the trapped New Zealand miners, declared dead following another underground blast, 106 articles.

TV show ‘I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here’, 64 articles vs. violence in the favelas of Rio, as police and drug gangs clash killing more than 40 people, 43 articles.

Who wrote a lot about…’The Ashes’

Colin Bateman – 15 articles (the Express), Stephen Brenkley – 15 articles (the Independent), David Hopps – 14 articles (the Guardian), John Etheridge – 13 articles (the Sun), Lawrence Booth – 10 articles (Mail Online), Nick Hoult – 10 articles (the Telegraph), Derek Pringle – 9 articles (the Telegraph)

Long-form journalism

• 4,491 words: ‘The internet’s cyber radicals: heroes of the web changing the world’ – Aleks Krotoski, the Observer, 28 November 2010;
• 3,440 words: ‘Losing Linda’ – Margarette Driscoll, Sunday Times, 28 November 2010;
• 3,433 words: ‘Inside a Sexual Assault Referral Centre’ – Amelia Gentleman, the Guardian, 25 November 2010.

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