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for the week ending Sunday 24 April
- Royal Wedding and AV referendum dominate news and debate
- Terror stemming from football club rivalry grips front and back pages
- EU immigrants and Sri Lanka war crimes covered little
Covered lots
- News and comment on the Royal Wedding, as preparations for street parties and security continue ahead of Friday, 722 articles
- Debate around AV referendum, with party leaders divided and ‘yes’/’no’ voting campaigns in full swing, 197 articles
- Letter bombs sent to Celtic Football Club manager Neil Lennon and and two other fans, 108 articles
Covered little
- France and Italy pushing for EU border control reforms, as the African migrants crisis worsens, 15 articles
- Ed Miliband’s engagement with Blue Labour ideals, including a re-thinking of the previous government’s immigration policies, 7 articles
- A leaked UN report alledges both the Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tigers committed war crimes during the final days of the civil war two years ago, 7 articles
- A river ferry capsizes in Bangladesh after colliding into wreckage of another ferry, with 33 reported dead, 3 articles
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- David Cameron: 648 articles (+13% on previous week)
- Nick Clegg: 285 articles (+5% on previous week)
- Ed Miliband: 217 articles (+103% on previous week)
- Vince Cable: 143 articles (-7% on previous week)
- Gordon Brown: 136 articles (-11% on previous week)
- George Osborne: 133 articles (-18% on previous week)
- Tony Blair: 106 articles (+33% on previous week)
- William Hague: 101 articles (-26% on previous week)
- Andrew Lansley: 46 articles (-63% on previous week)
- Andrew Mitchell: 40 articles (+300% on previous week)
Celebrity vs serious
- Actor Helen Mirren, who is promoting her new film, 45 articles vs. debate around mission creep in Libya, as UK military officers are ordered to join and ‘advise’ rebels on the ground, 41 articles
- Nigella Lawson, who was photographed swimming in a ‘burkini’, 36 articles vs. clashes between Thai and Cambodian military over disputed border, 18 articles
- Doctor Who’s Matt Smith, starring in the new series, 37 articles vs. post-election riots in Nigeria against new president Goodluck, with over 500 reported dead, 36 articles
- Singer Susan Boyle, who now has a wax model at Madame Tussauds, 25 articles vs. severe storms and tornadoes across the southern US, killing at least 45 people, 12 articles
Arab spring
- Libya and Colonel Gaddafi, 227 articles (-27% on previous week)
- Syria and President Bashar Al-Assad, 61 articles (+126% on previous week)
- Yemen and President Saleh, 30 articles (+50% on previous week)
- Gaza and Hamas, 23 articles (-39% on previous week)
- Iran and President Ahmadinejad, 10 articles (+233% on previous week)
- Bahrain and King Al Khalifa, 9 articles (+50% on previous week)
- Israel and Prime Minister Netanyahu, 6 articles (-68% on previous week)
- Oman and Sultan Al Said, 5 articles (+500% on previous week)
- Saudi Arabia and King Abdullah, 4 articles (+100% on previous week)
- Kuwait and Emir Al Sabah, 4 articles (+100% on previous week)
- Jordan and King Abdullah, 4 articles (-20% on previous week)
- Iraq and Prime Minister Al Maliki, 3 articles (+200% on previous week)
- Egypt’s military council, 2 articles (-83% on previous week)
- United Arab Emirates and President Al Nahyan, 2 articles (+100% on previous week)
- Turkey and Prime Minster Erdoğan, 2 articles (-33% on previous week)
Who wrote a lot about…’AV’
Andrew Grice – 7 articles (The Independent), Roland Watson – 6 articles (The Times), Andrew Porter – 5 articles (The Telegraph), Allegra Stratton – 5 articles (The Guardian), Andrew Sparrow – 4 articles (The Guardian), Patrick Wintour – 4 articles (The Guardian), Anushka Asthana – 4 articles (The Times)
Long form journalism
- 4,521 words: ‘Fight club: Life after the Jeremy Kyle treatment’ – Zoe Williams, The Guardian, 22nd April 2011
- 4,139 words: ‘Call of duty: the Army’s new recruits’ – Rob Blackhurst, Telegraph, 22nd April 2011
- 3,871 words: ‘Why have you forsaken us?’ – Christine Tooney and Hala Jaber, Sunday Times, 24th April 2011
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