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for the week ending Sunday 20 March
- National news outlets gripped by fate of Fukushima nuclear plant
- The UN resolution for a no-fly zone over Libya, covered lots
- Other international, Middle East and and UK news struggles to get a look in
Covered lots
- Fears of Japan’s quake-damaged Fukushima nuclear plant going into meltdown, with expats advised to leave Tokyo, 831 articles
- Gaddafi, declaring a ceasefire and then sending his forces to attack rebels in the city of Benghazi, 662 articles
- The UN passes a resolution for a no-fly zone over Libya, with western allies striking Gaddafi’s air bases over the weekend, 543 articles
- In rugby union, England loses to Ireland but wins this year’s Six Nations championship, 422 articles
Covered little
- The world’s largest paedophile ring, centred around Dutch website ‘boylover.net’, is uncovered by police, with international arrests underway, 13 articles
- US state department spokesman, Philip Crowley, resigns in protest at the treatment of Bradley Manning, 9 articles
- The body of missing 25-year-old, Jia Ashton, found in woods in Derbyshire, with her family now appealing to witnesses, 8 articles
- Anglesey County Council, stripped of its executive powers, a first in the UK, 7 articles
- Tens of thousands rally in the streets of Gaza and the West Bank, calling for unity between the two Palestinian parties Hamas and Al-Fatah, 5 articles
- Israel seizes a weapons ship headed for Egypt, the Israeli navy suspecting Syria and Iran of smuggling arms into Gaza, 4 articles
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- David Cameron: 587 articles (+6 per cent on previous week)
- George Osborne: 242 articles (+6 per cent on previous week)
- William Hague: 176 articles (-35 per cent on previous week)
- Ed Miliband: 165 articles (+114 per cent on previous week)
- Nick Clegg: 153 articles (-18 per cent on previous week)
- Tony Blair: 112 articles (+14 per cent on previous week)
- Gordon Brown: 104 articles (+18 per cent on previous week)
- Ed Balls: 83 articles (+63 per cent on previous week)
- Andrew Lansley: 80 articles (0 per cent on previous week)
- Vince Cable: 49 articles (-42 per cent on previous week)
- Liam Fox: 48 articles (-2 per cent on previous week)
Celebrity vs serious
- Kate Middleton, with the dress she modelled at university selling for £78,000 at auction, 151 articles vs. 1,000 Saudi troops invited into Bahrain by the kingdom as it declares a 3 month ‘state of emergency’, 51 articles
- ‘The Only Way is Essex’, the new series, 35 articles vs. two accomplices of killer Raoul Moat, jailed for life, 13 articles
- Charlie Sheen, with his love life still interesting the press, 34 articles, vs. the killing of over 50 protesters in Sana’a, Yemen, President Saleh then sacking his entire cabinet, 10 articles
- Singer Nicole Scherzinger, pitched against Cheryl Cole for judge position on US X Factor, 21 articles vs. anti-regime demonstrations across cities in Syria, leaving 4 dead and hundreds wounded, 12 articles
Who wrote a lot about…’Fukushima’
Leo Lewis – 19 articles (The Times), Justin McCurry – (The Guardian), Nick Allen – 11 articles (Telegraph), Michiyo Nakamoto – 10 articles (Financial Times), Tania Branigan – 10 articles (The Guardian), Gordon Rayner – 9 articles (Telegraph), Robert Cookson – 8 articles (Financial Times), David McNeil – 7 articles (The Independent), Martyn McLaughlin – 7 articles (The Scotsman)
Long form journalism
- 4,332 words: ‘Martine Wright: 7/7, survival – and a whole new life of opportunities’ – Carole Cadwalladr, The Observer, 20th March 2011
- 3,734 words: ‘OJ’s last stand’ – Chris Ayres, Sunday Times, 20th March 2011
- 3,404 words: ‘Rare earths: why China is cutting exports crucial to Western technologies’ – Peter Foster, Daily Telegraph, 19th March 2011
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