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for the week ending Sunday 30 January
- Sexist remarks by two football commentators and phone hacking received much coverage
- Egyptian protests and the leaking of the ‘Palestine papers’ dominated headlines
- Drugs from Britain used on US death row and the return of a Tunisian Islamist leader received little attention
Covered lots
- Sky Sports football commentators Andy Gray and Richard Keys, forced to resign after making sexist remarks on air, 403 articles
- Protestors amassing against the Mubarak regime in Egypt, following the overthrow of Tunisia’s president, 329 articles
- More phone hacking allegations, with an MP and more celebrities coming forward, 243 articles
- 1,600 leaked documents on the Middle East peace process, revealing the Palestinian leadership’s concessions to Israel, 98 articles
Covered little
- The Spanish families of 261 babies, stolen over five decades, call for an investigation, 4 articles
- Rachid Ghannouchi, the leader of Tunisia’s largest Islamist movement, returns after 23 years of exile, 3 articles
- Lethal drugs supplied by a small British pharmaceutical company are used to execute a second prisoner on US death row, 2 articles
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- David Cameron: 501 articles (-10% on previous week)
- George Osborne: 315 articles (+51% on previous week)
- Ed Balls: 155 articles (-22% on previous week)
- Gordon Brown: 142 articles (-26% on previous week)
- Tony Blair: 140 articles (-55% on previous week)
- Vince Cable: 134 articles (+109% on previous week)
- Nick Clegg: 132 articles (-29% on previous week)
- Ed Miliband: 120 articles (-57% on previous week)
- Theresa May: 102 articles (+23% on previous week)
- William Hague: 100 articles (+138% on previous week)
Celebrity vs serious
- British film ‘The King’s Speech’, nominated for 12 Oscars, 141 articles vs. a bomb in Moscow airport, killing 35 and wounding up to 200 people, 74 articles
- Cheryl Cole, with a new tattoo, 62 articles vs. Nelson Mandela, rushed to hospital with a collapsed lung, 63 articles
- Actor Charlie Sheen, back in rehab, 28 articles vs. protests in Lebanon as Hezbollah swears in a new prime minister, 20 articles
Who wrote a lot about…’protests in Egypt’
Jack Shenker – 13 articles (The Guardian), James Hider – 11 articles (The Times), Peter Beaumont – 10 articles (The Guardian), Roula Khalaf – 7 articles (Financial Times), Adrian Blomfield – 6 articles (Telegraph)
Long form journalism
- 4,731 words: ‘The loneliness of the long distance cyclist’ – Paul Kimmage, The Sunday Times, 30th January 2011
- 4138 words: ‘Aung San Suu Kyi’ – David Pilling, Financial Times, 28th January 2011
- 3,162 words: ‘Gold rush in the Amazon’ – Alfonso Daniels, Daily Telegraph, 28th January 2011
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