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for the week ending Sunday 6 February
- Ongoing popular protests in Egypt covered across press
- Football (Association and American) hogs the back pages
- Massive Afghan bank fraud and China-Zimbabwe investment hardly covered
Covered lots
- Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, refusing to step down immediately but entering negotiations with opposition groups, 743 articles
- Footballer Fernando Torres, making his Chelsea FC debut against former club Liverpool, 152 articles
- The Super Bowl, in which the Green Bay Packers beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 31-25, 115 articles
- Cyclone Yasi hitting the already flood stricken coast of Queensland, 114 articles
Covered little
- Controversy over suspected $900m loss at Kabul Bank, 9 articles
- A 14-year-old is flogged to death in Bangladesh, accused by Islamic clerics of having an affair with a married man, 8 articles
- China reportedly poised to invest $10bn in Zimbabwe’s ailing economy, 1 article
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- David Cameron: 517 articles (-16% on previous week)
- George Osborne: 161 articles (+72% on previous week)
- Nick Clegg: 139 articles (-18% on previous week)
- Tony Blair: 121 articles (-45% on previous week)
- Gordon Brown: 103 articles (-13% on previous week)
- William Hague: 99 articles (+212% on previous week)
- Ed Miliband: 93 articles (-48% on previous week)
- Theresa May: 73 articles (+43% on previous week)
- Vince Cable: 71 articles (+122% on previous week)
- Jack Straw: 60 articles (-62% on previous week)
Celebrity vs serious
- Jeremy Clarkson, making offensive comments about Mexicans on Top Gear, 45 articles vs. WikiLeaks cables revealing a secret US-funded anti-radicalisation campaign in Britain, 7 articles
- Christina Aguilera, fluffing her lines at the Super Bowl, 22 articles vs. Formula 1 driver Robert Kubica, severely damaging his hand in a rally crash, 20 articles
- Sally Bercow, wife of the Speaker John Bercow, poses for magazine photos, 31 articles vs. a care worker in Bern, Switzerland admits to abusing 114 disabled adults and children over three decades, 4 articles
- Keira Knightley, with new boyfriend rumours, 31 articles vs a climber who fell a thousand feet and survived with minor injuries, 10 articles
Who wrote a lot about…’Omar Suleiman’
Richard Spencer – 10 articles (Telegraph), James Hider – 7 articles (The Times), Ian Black – 7 articles (The Guardian), Tom Chivers – 6 articles (Telegraph), Colin Freeman – 6 articles (Telegraph)
Long form journalism
- 4,583 words: ‘Storm over the Nile’ – Matthew Campbell, Sunday Times, 6th February 2011
- 3,902 words: ‘Benefit fraud: spies in the welfare war’ – Amelia Gentleman, The Guardian, 1st February 2011
- 3,548 words: ‘Road to redemption’ – David James, Sunday Times, 6th February 2011
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