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Jeremy Hunt, Rupert Murdoch and UK in recession
For the week ending Sunday 29 April.
- Jeremy Hunt’s office’s email exchange with News Corporation dominated the news
- Rupert Murdoch at the Leveson Inquiry, UK back in recession, and French elections were covered lots
- PM Mark Rutte (Netherlands) resigns, PM Awn Khasawneh (Jordan) resigns and president Gilani (Pakistan) guilty of contempt covered little
Covered Lots
- Jeremy Hunt faced calls for his resignation in response to correspondence between his office and News Corp regarding the BSkyB bid, 409 articles, released after James Murdoch gave evidence at the Leveson Inquiry, 255 articles
- Rupert Murdoch also gave evidence at the Leveson Inquiry, admitting there was a ‘cover-up’ of practices at the News of the World, but it was kept from him, 336 articles
- The UK was officially declared to be in a double-dip recession, 332 articles
- François Hollande, was predicted to win forthcoming French elections, after winning the first round, 124 articles
Covered Little
- Political turmoil in the Netherlands as PM Mark Rutte tenders his resignation following concerted opposition to austerity cuts, 28 articles
- Growing international pressure on the Ukraine after the former PM, Yulia Tymoshenko, was reportedly beaten by guards while being held in prison, 27 articles
- Jordanian PM Awn Khasawneh resigns after just 6 months, raising questions over the deportation of Abu Qatada, 5 articles
- The PM of Pakistan – Yusuf Raza Gilani – was found guilty of contempt for blocking corruption case against former President Zardari, 3 articles
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- David Cameron, 639 articles (+23 per cent on last week)
- Jeremy Hunt, 409 articles (+1263 per cent on last week)
- George Osborne, 332 articles (+31 per cent on last week)
- Ed Miliband, 205 articles (+37 per cent on last week)
- Vince Cable, 171 articles (+375 per cent on last week)
- Tony Blair, 168 articles (+39 per cent on last week)
- Gordon Brown,151 articles (+152 per cent on last week)
- Boris Johnson, 151 articles (+15 per cent on last week)
- Nick Clegg, 143 articles (+16 per cent on last week)
- Theresa May, 122 articles (-26 per cent on last week)
Celebrity vs Serious
- Jessie J, a judge on the BBC’s ‘The Voice’ and also rich, 64 articles vs. Charles Taylor is convicted of aiding war crimes in Liberia at the Hague, 47 articles
- Kim Kardashian has an evening with Barack Obama, 39 articles vs. escalation of hostilities in Sudan that bring the country to brink of war, 26 articles
- Katie Price is to marry for a third time, 32 articles vs. Barclays bank posts a £475 million pre-tax loss in the first three months of 2012, compared to the same period last year when they had a £1.7 billion profit, 21 articles
- Gary Neville enjoys commentating on the Chelsea Barcelona game, 31 articles vs. the Legal Aid bill finally heads for royal assent after being defeated 14 times in the House of Lords, 4 articles
Political zeitgeist
- Austerity 432 articles
- Double-dip 236 articles
- Quasi-judicial 124 articles
- Ministerial Code 112 articles
Eurozone leaders (top ten by number of articles)
- Nicolas Sarkozy (France), 163 articles (+23% on last week)
- Angela Merkel (Germany), 68 articles (+40% on last week)
- Mark Rutte (The Netherlands), 46 articles (+411% on last week)
- Mario Monti (Italy), 28 articles (no change on last week)
- Mariano Rajoy (Spain), 21 articles (-52% on last week)
- Enda Kenny (Ireland), 10 articles (+25% on last week)
- Lucas Papademos (Greece), 6 articles (from 1 last week)
- Helle Thorning-Schmidt (Denmark), 2 articles (from 1 last week)
- Iveta Radicova (Slovakia), 1 article (from 0 last week)
- Jean-Claude Juncker (Luxembourg), 1 article (-67% on last week)
No other Eurozone leaders were mentioned in UK press coverage.
Who wrote a lot about…the French elections
- Henry Samuel, Daily/Sunday Telegraph, 7 articles
- Louise Armitstead, Daily/Sunday Telegraph, 5 articles
- Angelique Chrisafis, The Guardian, 5 articles
- Hugh Carnegy, The Financial Times, 4 articles
- Ian Traynor, The Guardian, 3 articles
Long form journalism
- 4,512 words, Andy McNab (Financial Times), A personal dispatch from Afghanistan
- 4,155 words, John Arlidge (The Times), Show us the money, comrade (£)
- 3,692 words, Peter Bergen (Sunday Times), We’ve found Bin Laden — now how are we going to kill him? (£)
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