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for the week ending Sunday 23 May
Covered lots
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn, ex head of the IMF, initially denied bail in New York on charges including attempted rape, 443 articles
- The Queen’s widely praised visit to Ireland, 356 articles
- Privacy, injunctions and super injunctions, including a particular case involving former Big Brother contestant Imogen Thomas, 158 articles
- Chris Huhne, his ex-wife Vicky Pryce, and an argument over speeding points, 145 articles
Covered little
- Southern Cross, in a critical financial position threatening the future of their 750 UK care homes, 23 articles
- Mississippi floods, the worst since 1927, leave more than 4,800 people homeless, 11 articles
- 35 Afghan workers killed by Pakistan Taliban in “most deadly attack in months”, 6 articles
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- David Cameron: 729 articles (-5% on previous week)
- Nick Clegg: 239 articles (-37% on previous week)
- Chris Huhne : 216 articles (+116% on previous week)
- George Osborne : 197 articles (-13% on previous week)
- Ed Miliband : 175 articles (+20% on previous week)
- Ken Clarke : 160 articles (+227% on previous week)
- Gordon Brown : 159 articles (+38% on previous week)
- Liam Fox : 154 articles (+276% on previous week)
- Vince Cable : 146 articles (+3% on previous week)
- Alex Salmond : 139 articles (-27% on previous week)
Celebrity vs serious
- Lady Gaga promoting her new album, 98 articles vs. two men to go on trial for the murder of Stephen Lawrence, 45 articles
- Cheryl Cole wearing similar dresses to X Factor USA judge Paula Abdul, 91 articles vs.government commitment to 50% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2027, 29 articles
- Kirsten Dunst talking about her new film Melancholia in Cannes, 54 articles vs.massacre of at least 27 people in Guatemala, 7 articles
Arab spring
- Libya and Colonel Gaddafi, 135 articles (-1% on previous week)
- Israel and Prime Minister Netanyahu, 83 articles (+419% on previous week)
- Syria and President Bashar Al-Assad, 49 articles (-44% on previous week)
- Gaza and Hamas, 36 articles (+38% on previous week)
- Yemen and President Saleh, 23 articles (+5% on previous week)
- Bahrain and King Al Khalifa, 20 articles (+567% on previous week)
- West Bank and President Abbas, 18 articles (+125% on previous week)
- Iran and President Ahmadinejad, 16 articles (+220% on previous week)
- Egypt’s Military Council, 20 articles (+122% on previous week)
- Turkey and Prime Minster Erdogan, 2 articles (-50% on previous week)
- Saudi Arabia and King Abdullah, 2 articles (-33% on previous week)
- United Arab Emirates and President Al Nahyan, 0 articles (-100% on previous week)
- Algeria and President Bouteflika, 0 articles (-100% on previous week)
Who wrote a lot about…’the Queen’s visit to Ireland’
Long form journalism
- 3,871 words An education: Inside Bangladesh’s madrasas – Tahmima Anam, The Guardian, 21st May 2011
- 2,987 words Inner-city academy that’s a blueprint for the future – Caroline Scott, The Daily Telegraph, 16th May 2011
- 2,793 words The MIT factor: celebrating 150 years of maverick genius – Ed Pilkington, The Guardian, 18th May 2011
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