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for the week ending Sunday 27 March
- The battle for Libya overshadows the press
- Much analysis of Osborne’s 2011 Budget
- Tsunami aftermath, MPs’ pay freeze, and Saudi rallies received little attention
Covered lots
- The battle for Libya, and control of the no-fly zone, 679 articles
- Chancellor George Osborne, announcing the details of the 2011 Budget, 647 articles
- Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant, with engineers still working frantically to make it safe, 318 articles
- The murder of 22-year-old Sian O’Callaghan, whose body was found in Oxfordshire on Thursday, 108 articles
Covered little
- The humanitarian crisis in the wake of Japan’s earthquake and tsunami, with the death toll now over 10,000, and thousands left homeless, 47 articles
- Gurkha Sergeant Dipprasad Pun‘s award for bravery, after he single-handedly fought off 30 Taliban fighters, 9 articles
- MPs vote to freeze their own salaries, 3 articles
- Fresh rallies staged in Saudi Arabia, with a thousand people marching in the oil-rich eastern province after Friday prayers, 1 article
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- George Osborne: 759 articles (+214% on previous week)
- David Cameron: 536 articles (-8% on previous week)
- Ed Miliband: 215 articles (+30% on previous week)
- Gordon Brown: 174 articles (+69% on previous week)
- William Hague: 174 articles (-1% on previous week)
- Liam Fox: 132 articles (+175% on previous week)
- Nick Clegg: 113 articles (-26% on previous week)
- Tony Blair: 106 articles (-5% on previous week)
- Ed Balls: 90 articles (+8% on previous week)
- Vince Cable: 75 articles (+56% on previous week)
Celebrity vs serious
- Lady Gaga, campaigning for gay rights in Malaysia with her new hit song, 71 articles vs. over 40 Pakistan miners killed in an underground blast, 10 articles
- Madonna, looking to sue after her Malawi school project fails, 56 articles vs. Human Rights Watch reporting the use of torture by a special police unit in Uganda, 2 articles
- Singer Chris Brown, throwing a backstage tantrum on Good Morning America after being questioned about alleged abuse of ex-girlfriend Rihanna, 25 articles vs. worsening political crisis and escalating violence in Ivory coast, 19 articles
- Fiona Walker, the 1976 poster girl in a tennis dress, 15 articles vs. the Canadian government collapsing after a no-confidence vote, 13 articles
Who wrote a lot about…’the 2011 Budget’
Larry Elliott – 12 articles (The Guardian), Chris Giles – 9 articles (Financial Times), James Chapman – 7 articles (MailOnline), Venessa Houlder – 7 articles (Financial Times), Andrew Grice – 6 articles (The Independent)
Long form journalism
- 4,002 words: ‘Mark Kennedy: Confessions of an undercover cop’ – Simon Hattenstone, The Guardian, 26th March 2011
- 3,924 words: ‘Why was I born gay in Africa?’ – Elizabeth Day, The Observer, 27th March 2011
- 3,226 words: Boxing armageddon – Richard Girling, Sunday Times, 27th March 2011
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