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Costa Concordia, Newt Gingrich and cuts controversy

for the week ending Sunday 22 January

• The Costa Concordia crash dominated the week’s papers
• Newt Gingrich, Labour cuts controversy and Leveson covered lots
• Chinese growth, Egyptian election and Croatian referendum covered little

Covered lots

• Cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground off Italian coast, 413 articles
• Newt Gingrich wins the Republican primary in South Carolina, 210 articles
• Labour faces union criticism of its stance on cuts, 202 articles
• The Leveson Inquiry continues, 169 articles
• Michael Gove calls for a new royal yacht to celebrate the Jubilee, 111 articles

Covered little

• China faces an economic growth slowdown, 19 articles
• Croatia votes to join the EU, 13 articles
• Arab League calls for Syrian reform, 10 articles
• Final results in Egyptian parliamentary elections show victory for Islamist parties, 5 articles
• China sees ‘dragon baby’ boom, 4 articles
• Jon Huntsman withdraws from the GOP presidential nomination race, 3 articles

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

• David Cameron: 696 (-5% on last week)
• Ed Miliband: 262 (+2% on last week)
• George Osborne: 247 (+4% on last week)
• Nick Clegg: 204 (+22% on last week)
• Boris Johnson: 127 (+61% on last week)
• Michael Gove: 119 (+9% on last week)
• Tony Blair: 114 (-3% on last week)
• Gordon Brown: 111 (+28% on last week)
• Alex Salmond: 106 (-59% on last week)
• Ed Balls: 103 (+30% on last week)

Celebrity vs. serious

• Celebrity Big Brother continues, 92 articles vs. Wikipedia shuts down amid concerns over anti-piracy legislation, 88 articles
• Ricky Gervais hosts the Golden Globes again, 72 articles vs. News International pays out to 37 victims of phone-hacking, and the Times and Sunday Times editors appear before the Leveson Inquiry, 80 articles
• Simon Cowell experiences problems with his talent show empire, 56 articles vs. Argentina and the UK up the pressure over the Falklands, 76 articles
• David Beckham signs deal to stay with LA Galaxy, 37 articles vs. Nick Clegg calls for a ‘John Lewis’ economy, 40 articles
• A pregnant Amanda Holden wears heels, 8 articles vs. the downfall of Tom Harris, Labour’s social media guru, 8 articles

Eurozone leaders (top ten by number of articles)

• Nicolas Sarkozy (France): 88 (-32% on last week)
• Mario Monti (Italy): 61 (+65% on last week)
• Angela Merkel (Germany): 46 (-54% on last week)
• Lucas Papademos (Greece): 25 (-7% on last week
• Mariano Rajoy (Spain): 9 (+50% on last week)
• Enda Kenny (Ireland): 5 (-77% on last week)
• Pedro Passos Coelho (Portugal): 2 (+100% on last week)
• Werner Faymann (Austria): 1 (-50% on last week)
• Mark Rutte (The Netherlands): 1 (-94% on last week)

Who wrote a lot about… the Australian Open

• Kevin Mitchell – 24 articles (The Guardian)
• Neil McLeman – 19 articles (Mirror)
• Simon Briggs – 12 articles (Daily Telegraph)
• Neil Harman – 10 articles (The Times)
• Mike Dickson – 10 articles (MailOnline)

Long form journalism

• 4,502 words: ‘Peter Tatchell – activist, irritant, national treasure’ by Ginny Dougary, The Times, 21st January 2012
• 4,239 words: ‘Anne Rice: interview with the vampire writer’ by Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph, 21st January 2012
• 3,250 words: ‘Belfast, divided in the name of peace’ by Sean O’Hagan, The Observer, 22nd January 2012

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