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For the week ending Sunday 29 May

• Obama’s European tour captures the headlines
• Debate over privacy injunctions spreads across tabloids and broadsheets
• Alleged sexual harassment by French government minister covered little

Covered lots

• President Obama’s UK and Ireland visits ahead of the G8, including Guinness sampling, a Buckingham Palace banquet, and historic addresses to Parliament and Westminster Hall, 340 articles
• Footballer Ryan Giggs is named by MP John Hemming for having taken out an injunction, igniting further debate over privacy law and the internet, 176 articles
• The G8 Summit in Paris, including talks over Middle East aid, Russia as mediator in the Libya conflict, and internet regulation, 154 articles
• Iceland’s most active volcano erupts, causing more than 500 flights over Scotland to be cancelled in fear of another ash cloud, 129 articles
• Serbian fugitive Ratko Mladic, arrested and awaiting trial at the Hague for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, 126 articles

Covered little

• President Sarkozy’s civil service minister, Georges Tron, is accused by two women of sexual harassment, 6 articles
• Former Egyptian president Mubarak and his sons, charged with corruption and conspiracy to murder protesters, 6 articles
• Infrared satellite mapping reveals 17 pyramids, 1,000 tombs and 3,000 ancient settlements around the ancient Egyptian city of Tanis, 6 articles
• A teenager thought to be Britain’s youngest ever contract killer is jailed for life, 2 articles

Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)

• David Cameron: 635 articles (-13% on previous week)
• Nick Clegg: 175 articles (-27% on previous week)
• George Osborne: 136 articles (-31% on previous week)
• Tony Blair: 125 articles (-6% on previous week)
• Gordon Brown: 121 articles (-24% on previous week)
• Ed Miliband: 113 articles (-35% on previous week)
• Alex Salmond: 110 articles (-21% on previous week)
• William Hague: 104 articles (1% on previous week)
• Philip Hammond: 89 articles (+48% on previous week)
• Chris Huhne: 72 articles (-67% on previous week)

Celebrity vs serious

• Cheryl Cole, dropped from US X Factor, 92 articles vs. a massive tornado hitting the Missouri city of Joplin, killing over 120 people, 84 articles
• Oprah Winfrey, bidding farewell after her 25 year chat show reign, 37 articles vs. anti-government rebels overunning Yemen’s capital, Sana’a, with more protester deaths, 30 articles
• Angelina Jolie, starring in new film Kung Fu Panda II, 25 articles vs. PC Simon Harwood, to face manslaughter charges for Ian Tomlinson G20 death, 22 articles

Arab spring

• Libya and Colonel Gaddafi, 186 articles (+38% on previous week)
• Yemen and President Saleh, 55 articles (+139% on previous week)
• Israel and Prime Minister Netanyahu, 45 articles (-46% on previous week)
• Syria and President Bashar Al-Assad, 40 articles (-18% on previous week)
• Gaza and Hamas, 29 articles (-19% on previous week)
• West Bank and President Abbas, 16 articles (-11% on previous week)
• Tunisia and Prime Mininster Sebsi, 8 articles (+700% on previous week)
• Egypt and Prime Minister Essam Sharaf, 8 articles (+100% on previous week)
• Iran and President Ahmadinejad, 8 articles (-50% on previous week)
• Saudi Arabia and King Abdullah, 7 articles (+250% on previous week)
• Bahrain and King Al Khalifa, 4 articles (-80% on previous week)
• Oman and Sultan Al Said, 1 articles (+100% on previous week)
• Jordan and King Abdullah, 1 article (-86% on previous week)
• Lebanon and Prime Minister Najib Mikati, 1 article (+100% on previous week)
• Turkey and Prime Minster Erdogan, 1 articles (-50% on previous week)

Who wrote a lot about…’The G8 Summit’

Long form journalism

• 4,092 words: ‘Someone to lean on’ – Amelia Gentleman, The Guardian, 28th May 2011
• 3,067 words: ‘Home truths: ‘Squatting is the perfect example of the Big Society” – Matthew Bell, The Independent, 29th May
• 2,836 words: ‘Power to the people: Dale Vince, green energy pioneer’ – John Paul Flintoff, Telegraph, 27th May 2011

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