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For the week ending Saturday 26 June
- Wimbledon and Glastonbury cover features and back pages
- Greek economic crisis and Afghanistan war dominate international news
- Another flotilla, and Aung San Suu Kyi addressing Congress, covered little
Covered lots
- Wimbledon, with Murray, Federer, Nadal and Sharapova cruising to the quarter finals, 1,243 articles
- Glastonbury Festival 2011, headlined by U2, Beyonce and Cold Play, 381 articles
- The Eurozone crisis, with Osborne standing firm on refusal of UK aid in second bailout, and Greece’s government surviving a confidence vote, 370 articles
- Obama announces an exit strategy of US troops from Afghanistan by 2014, followed by Cameron’s and Sarkozy’s for British and French troops, 159 articles
Covered little
- Tunisia’s former president Ben Ali and his wife, who fled anti-government protests in January, are sentenced to 35 years in prison for embezzlement and misuse of public funds, 10 articles
- A Jamaican deportee slits his throat on a plane due to leave the UK, 8 articles
- Another ‘freedom’ flotilla is bound for the Gaza Strip, 6 articles
- Aung San Suu Kyi addresses the US Congress for the first time ever, 0 articles
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- David Cameron: 732 articles (+24% on previous week)
- George Osborne: 213 articles (-40% on previous week)
- Ed Miliband: 184 articles (-24% on previous week)
- Nick Clegg: 154 articles (-19% on previous week)
- Tony Blair: 141 articles (-16% on previous week)
- Alex Salmond: 130 articles (+23% on previous week)
- Michael Gove: 111 articles (+32% on previous week)
- Gordon Brown: 98 articles (-25% on previous week)
- Ed Balls: 90 articles (-34% on previous week)
- Danny Alexander: 85 articles (-30% on previous week)
Celebrity vs serious
- Cheryl Cole, maybe getting back with her ex, Ashley, 67 articles vs. riots in Belfast, reported to be the worst in a decade, 23 articles
- Singer Beyonce, closing Glastonbury, 49 articles vs. a plane crash in Russia killing over 45 people, 21 articles
- George Clooney, split from his model/TV presenter girlfriend, 36 articles vs. PC Simon Harwood, charged with the manslaughter of Ian Tomlinson at the 2009 G20 protests, 12 articles
Arab spring (countries & current leaders)
- Libya and Colonel Gaddafi, 147 articles (-15% on previous week)
- Syria and President Bashar Al-Assad, 104 articles (-15% on previous week)
- Yemen and President Saleh, 16 articles (-24% on previous week)
- Gaza and Hamas, 15 articles (+15% on previous week)
- Iran and President Ahmadinejad, 10 articles (+11% on previous week)
- Israel and Prime Minister Netanyahu, 8 articles (+33% on previous week)
- Turkey and Prime Minster Erdogan, 8 articles (-84% on previous week)
- Bahrain and King Al Khalifa, 6 articles (-33% on previous week)
- West Bank and President Abbas, 5 articles (-29% on previous week)
- Jordan and King Abdullah, 3 articles (-67% on previous week)
- Morocco and King Mohammed VI, 3 articles (-57% on previous week)
- Qatar and Emir Khalifa Al Thani, 3 articles (+300% on previous week)
- Egypt’s Military Council, 2 articles (+50% on previous week)
- Egypt and Prime Minister Sharaf, 2 articles (+200% on previous week)
- Saudi Arabia and King Abdullah, 1 articles (-83% on previous week)
- Oman and Sultan Al Said, 1 article (0% on previous week)
Who wrote a lot about…’Wimbledon’
Mark Hodgkinson – 18 articles (Telegraph), Simon Cambers – 16 articles (The Guardian), Kevin Mitchell – 15 articles (The Guardian), Paul Newman – 15 articles (The Independent), Alexandra Willis – 13 articles (Telegraph), Steve Brenner – 12 articles (The Sun), Brian Viner – 12 articles (Independent), Stuart Bathgate – 11 articles (The Scotsman), Neil Harman – 11 articles (The Times), Ben Smith – 11 articles (The Times)
Long form journalism
- 3,390 words: We’ve got you under our skins – AA Gill, The Sunday Times, 26 June 2011
- 3,058 words: Pakistan’s unlikely crime fighters – Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark, The Guardian, 24th June 2011
- 2,925 words: Widening the net for British tennis – David White, Telegraph, 23rd June 2011
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