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for the week ending Sunday 15 May
- Privacy and NHS reform dominated political debate
- Alleged scandal over FIFA World Cup bid held front and back pages
- A Japan nuclear plant shut down and religious violence in Cairo, covered little
Covered lots
- Anonymous claims circulated on Twitter named celebrities who had allegedly taken out superinjunctions, prompting heated debate about UK privacy law, 141 articles
- The NHS reforms provoke more debate ahead of Cameron’s speech, with Clegg vowing to stand up to Tory plans, 127 articles
- Former FA chairman Lord Triesman accused FIFA executives of bribery in early stages of the 2018 world cup bid, sparking fresh outcries of a scandal, 96 articles
Covered little
- Two suicide bombs killed 80 Pakistani paramilitary cadets; the Pakistan Taliban claimed the attack as revenge for Bin Laden’s death, 14 articles
- Japan’s Prime Minister ordered the Hamaoka nuclear plant to be closed down, amidst fear of future earthquakes and a re-thinking of the country’s energy policies, 8 articles
- Riots in Cairo after two Coptic churches were set on fire, leaving 12 dead and over 200 injured, 7 articles
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- David Cameron: 768 articles (+4% on previous week)
- Nick Clegg: 378 articles (-22% on previous week)
- George Osborne: 227 articles (+33% on previous week)
- Alex Salmond: 190 articles (-36% on previous week)
- Ed Miliband: 146 articles (-55% on previous week)
- Vince Cable: 142 articles (+38% on previous week)
- Tony Blair: 128 articles (-7% on previous week)
- Gordon Brown: 115 articles (-15% on previous week)
- Theresa May: 106 articles (+176% on previous week)
- Andrew Lansley: 95 articles (+239% on previous week)
Celebrity vs serious
- Cheryl Cole, judging US X Factor, 116 articles vs. 91-year-old former concentration camp guard John Demjanjuk convicted for assisted killing of 28,000 Jews, after 3 decades of legal proceedings, 33 articles
- Johnny Depp, promoting the latest Pirates of the Caribbean film, 92 articles vs. a 5.1 Richter scale earthquake in southeastern Spain, killing nine and leaving 10,000 homeless, 54 articles
- UK boyband Blue performing on Eurovision, 70 articles vs. migrants fleeing North African unrest and dying at sea, with both Nato and the Libyan regime accused of neglect, 17 articles
Arab spring
- Libya and Colonel Gaddafi, 136 articles (-4% on previous week)
- Syria and President Bashar Al-Assad, 87 articles (+6% on previous week)
- Gaza and Hamas, 26 articles (-63% on previous week)
- Yemen and President Saleh, 22 articles (-4% on previous week)
- Israel and Prime Minister Netanyahu, 16 articles (-58% on previous week)
- Egypt’s Military Council, 9 articles (+50% on previous week)
- West Bank and President Abbas, 8 articles (-70% on previous week)
- Iran and President Ahmadinejad, 5 articles (-44% on previous week)
- Turkey and Prime Minster Erdoğan, 4 articles (-50% on previous week)
- Saudi Arabia and King Abdullah, 3 articles (-67% on previous week)
- Bahrain and King Al Khalifa, 3 articles (-50% on previous week)
- United Arab Emirates and President Al Nahyan, 3 article (+200% on previous week)
- Algeria and President Bouteflika, 1 article (0% on previous week)
Who wrote a lot about…’privacy’
Frances Gibb – 9 articles (The Times), Tim Bradshaw – 6 articles (Financial Times), Josh Halliday – 6 articles (The Guardian), Dan Sabbagh – 6 articles (The Guardian), Steven Swinford – 6 articles (Telegraph), Roy Greenslade – 5 articles (The Guardian)
Long form journalism
- 5,624 words: Adoption: ‘They need more than just love’’ – Carol Midgley, The Times, 9th May 2011
- 3,906 words: London’s Air Ambulance, saviour of the skies – Eric Clark, Telegraph, 12th May 2011
- 2,831 words: Safe house – Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian, 14th May 2011
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