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for the week ending Sunday 12 December

• Wikileaks and Julian Assange’s arrest flooded the news
• The tuition fees vote and subsequent protests were covered widely
• Little coverage on alleged sweatshop exploitation by British stores or Sarah Palin visiting Haiti

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Covered lots

• Ongoing WikiLeaks, with founder Julian Assange arrested in London and refused bail, and hacking of sites that withdrew services from the whistleblowing website, 631 articles
• The vote on tuition fees, with protests giving way to violence and injuries in and around Parliament Square, 615 articles
• X Factor, with the final broadcast on Sunday, 352 articles

Covered little

• 21 Oxbridge colleges admitted no black students last year, following MP David Lammy’s FOI request, 10 articles
• Sarah Palin visiting refugee camps in Haiti, a move said to bolster her foreign policy credentials, 5 articles
• British high street stores named by a recent anti-poverty investigation into sweatshop conditions in India, 1 article

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

• David Cameron: 448 articles (-36% on previous week)
• Nick Clegg : 288 articles (+11% on previous week)
• Vince Cable: 219 articles (+44% on previous week)
• Ed Miliband: 131 articles (-22% on previous week)
• George Osborne: 122 articles (-15% on previous week)
• Tony Blair: 109 articles (+1% on previous week)
• Gordon Brown: 104 articles (+44% on previous week)
• Theresa May: 96 articles (-19% on previous week)
• Jeremy Hunt: 95 articles (+11% on previous week)
• Michael Gove: 62 articles (-65% on previous week)

Celebrity vs serious

• Simon Cowell, X Factor judge, 138 articles vs. the Nobel Peace Prize, boycotted by China and 18 other countries this year, 129 articles
• Matt Cardle, winner of this year’s X Factor, 103 articles vs. British citizen Shrien Dewani, arrested under suspicion of conspiring to murder his wife Anni in South Africa, 102 articles
• Prince Charles and Camilla, whose car was caught in tuition fees protests in London, 54 articles vs. 20-year-old student Alfie Meadows, hospitalised with bleeding on the brain allegedly caused by a police baton, 34 articles

Who wrote a lot about…’Nobel Prize and China’

Malcolm Moore – 8 articles (Telegraph), Jane Macartney – 8 articles (The Times), Tania Branigan – 8 articles (The Guardian), Geoff Dyer – 7 articles (Financial Times), Peter Foster – 7 articles (Telegraph), Andrew Ward – 5 articles (Financial Times)

Long form journalism

• 3,921 words: ‘Siege of Sidney Street: How the dramatic stand-off changed British police, politics and the media forever’ – Andy McSmith, The Independent, 11th December 2010
• 3,517 words: ‘Pass the bucks’ – Steve Boggan, The Guardian, 11th December 2010
• 3,150 words: ‘US humbled in bloody Sangin’ – Miles Amoore, The Sunday Times, 12th December 2010