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for the week ending Sunday 17 February
- Gaddafi clinging to power exerts hold over press
- Christchurch earthquake and UK-Libya rescue mission occupies the news
- Ivory Coast unrest and Saudi King’s promised payouts covered little
Covered lots
- Colonel Gaddafi, clinging onto power by hiring mercenaries, as protesters take over eastern Libya, 814 articles
- An earthquake hits Christchurch, New Zealand,, killing over 200 people, 300 articles
- Government rescue mission to fly/ship Britons out of Libya, and criticism of delays, 137 articles
Covered little
- Tunisia, with a major reform rally leading to PM Ghannouchi’s resignation, 11 articles
- Resurgence of political violence in Ivory Coast, with rebels killing soldiers loyal to president Gbagbo, 8 articles
- King Abdullah trys to forestall dissent with a gift of £22bn to the nation, as young Saudis call for a ‘day of rage’ on 11th March, 7 articles
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- David Cameron: 539 articles (-13% on previous week)
- Ed Balls: 230 articles (-15% on previous week)
- Tony Blair: 180 articles (-45% on previous week)
- Nick Clegg: 125 articles (-18% on previous week)
- Liam Fox: 110 articles (+236% on previous week)
- George Osborne: 107 articles (+72% on previous week)
- Gordon Brown: 98 articles (-13% on previous week)
- Michael Gove: 71 articles (+6% on previous week)
- Ed Miliband: 46 articles (-48% on previous week)
- Vince Cable: 41 articles (+122% on previous week)
Celebrity vs serious
- Kate Middleton, making her first public appearance since the royal engagement, 148 articles vs. PM Cameron’s visit to Egypt and Kuwait, fuelling criticism for travelling with arms traders, 22 articles
- Charlie Sheen, whose TV show is cancelled due to his bad behaviour, 47 articles vs. rising petrol prices induced by Middle East unrest, 29 articles
- Anne Hathaway, presenting the Oscars in a multitude of dresses, 43 articles vs. shootings and decapitations in Mexico’s raging drug war, 3 articles
Who wrote a lot about…’Colonel Gaddafi’
Martin Fletcher – 15 articles (The Times), Sam Coates – 7 articles (The Times), James Hider – 7 articles (The Times), Martin Williams – 7 articles (The Herald), Tim Shipman – 6 articles (Daily Mail), Kim Sengupta – 6 articles (The Independent), Sadie Gray – 6 articles (The Times)
Long form journalism
- 3,901 words: ‘The medical was an absolute joke’ – Amelia Gentleman, The Guardian 23rd February 2011
- 3,489 words: ‘The man whom dictators fear most’ – Stefanie Marsh, The Times, 22nd February 2011
- 2,789 words: ‘The Eton experiment’ – Greg Hurst, The Times, 25th February 2011
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