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for the week ending Sunday 12 June
- Syrian crackdown and Southern Cross crisis gripped headlines
- Grand Prix news drove the back pages
- Vietnam-China tensions and world’s largest refugee camp, covered little
Covered lots
- Grand Prix, with Jenson Button winning the Canadian race, and the Bahrain race postponed due to political unrest, 273 articles
- Troubled care home provider Southern Cross, denied government bailout, cutting 3,000 jobs, and planning to hive off over 130 homes, 154 articles
- Syrian refugees fleeing the town of Jisr al-Shughour along Turkey’s border, with 120 of the 189 dead alleged to be soldiers killed for refusing orders, 119 articles
Covered little
- Tensions escalate between China and Vietnam over disputed South China Sea territory and oil exploration, 17 articles
- An Iranian anti-government protester, held in Iran’s notorious Evin prison, died on Sunday after ten days of hunger strike, 5 articles
- The world’s largest refugee camp, on the Somalia-Kenya border, is declared full, with aid workers warning of a grave humanitarian crisis, 3 articles
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- David Cameron: 700 articles (+88% on previous week)
- Tony Blair: 276 articles (+312% on previous week)
- Ed Miliband: 238 articles (+386% on previous week)
- George Osborne: 194 articles (+88% on previous week)
- Gordon Brown: 180 articles (+134% on previous week)
- Vince Cable: 177 articles (+503% on previous week)
- Ed Balls: 166 articles (+295% on previous week)
- Nick Clegg: 161 articles (+59% on previous week)
- Theresa May: 128 articles (+266% on previous week)
- William Hague: 123 articles (+78% on previous week)
Celebrity vs serious
- Singer Nicole Scherzinger, who replaced Cheryl Cole as US X Factor judge, 50 articles vs. the previous government’s counter-terrorism strategy, accused of channelling money towards extremists, 43 articles
- Singer Lily Allen, ties the knot, 40 articles vs. vs. a volcanic eruption in Chile, forcing 3,500 to flee and disrupting flights in Australasia, 33 articles
- Model Kate Moss has her hen party, 37 articles vs. Peru’s election, won by left-populist candidate Ollanta Humala, 31 articles
Arab spring
- Libya and Colonel Gaddafi Libya and Colonel Gaddafi, 170 articles (+23% on previous week)
- Syria and President Bashar Al-Assad, 159 articles (+189% on previous week)
- Turkey and Prime Minster Erdogan Turkey and Prime Minster Erdogan, 77 articles (+3,750% on previous week)
- Yemen and President Saleh, 75 articles (-9% on previous week)
- Israel and Prime Minister Netanyahu, 16 articles (-30% on previous week)
- Iran and President Ahmadinejad, 15 articles (+25% on previous week)
- Gaza and Hamas, 11 articles (-39% on previous week)
- Bahrain and King Al Khalifa, 9 articles (-40% on previous week)
- Saudi Arabia and King Abdullah, 7 articles (-46% on previous week)
- West Bank and President Abbas West Bank and President Abbas, 7 articles (+250% on previous week)
- Oman and Sultan Said 3 articles (+200% on previous week)
- Jordan and King Abdullah, 3 articles (+200% on previous week)
- Egypt’s Military Council, 1 articles (-92% on previous week)
- UAE and President Al Nahyan, 1 articles (-92% on previous week)
Who wrote a lot about…’Ed Miliband’
Long form journalism
- 4,141 words: Kosovo’s bitter harvest – Ed Caesar, Sunday Times, 12th June 2011
- 3,500 words: Groupon: The golden nugget – Oliver Burkeman, The Guardian, 11th June 2011
- 3,022 words: British institutions: horse racing – Matthew Engel, Financial Times, 11th June 2011
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