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• The third round of the FA Cup dominated the sports sections
• Joanna Yeates’ murder, ‘flu fear, and Australian floods continue to dominate headlines
• Iran’s nuclear tour invitation, and the return of a radical Shia cleric to Iraq, received little coverage

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Covered lots

• The FA Cup third round, with Notts County beating Sunderland, and Manchester United defeating Liverpool, 417 articles
• Joanna Yeates’ murder, amidst continuing speculation but with no further arrests, 126 articles
• ‘Flu, with 50 UK deaths since October and warnings of a vaccine shortage, 106 articles
• Ongoing floods in Queensland, and a White House commission concluding last year’s BP Gulf spill was ‘preventable’, 94 articles each

Covered little

• An Iranian invitation to western diplomats to tour nuclear facilities, 16 articles
• The return from exile of Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada Al Sadr, known for his anti-Western views, 8 articles
• In Ohio a 10-year-old shoots his mother, with a gun belived to have been a gift from his grandfather, 7 articles

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

• David Cameron: 426 articles (+52% on previous week)
• Nick Clegg: 249 articles (+69% on previous week)
• Ed Miliband: 176 articles (+42% on previous week)
• George Osborne: 173 articles (+84% on previous week)
• Vince Cable: 100 articles (-12% on previous week)
• Tony Blair: 82 articles (+5% on previous week)
• Gordon Brown: 77 articles (-3% on previous week)
• Alan Johnson: 61 articles (+259% on previous week)
• Michael Gove: 54 articles (+26% on previous week)
• Theresa May: 51 articles (+113% on previous week)

Celebrity vs serious

• Kate Middleton, who will be arriving by car not coach to the royal wedding, 89 articles vs. Sudan’s referendum, which began on Sunday and will determine whether southern Sudan should split from the north, 72 articles
• EastEnders star Samantha Womack, leaving the show and currently involved in a controversial cot death storyline, 64 articles vs. revelations of teenage girls abused by sex grooming gangs in the UK, 40 articles
• David and Victoria Beckham expecting their fourth child, 32 articles vs. the debate around reforming libel law, following Nick Clegg’s civil liberties speech last Friday, 30 articles

Who wrote a lot about…’Sudan’

Xan Rice – 6 articles (The Guardian), Tristan McConnell – 5 articles (The Times), Mike Pflanz – 5 articles (Telegraph), Katrina Manson – 4 articles (Financial Times)

Long form journalism

• 4,641 words: ‘The extraordinary life and death of David Burgess’ – Elizabeth Day, The Observer, 9th January 2011
• 4,289 words: ‘The Texan who fell to Earth’ – Michael Bilton, The Sunday Times, 9th January 2011
• 2,376 words: ‘The new power of the press’ – John Lloyd, The Financial Times, 7th January 2011