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Journalisted Weekly: Football, phone hacking, and Egyptian uprising

Journalisted is an independent, not-for-profit website built to make it easier for you, the public, to find out more about journalists and what they write about.

It is run by the Media Standards Trust, a registered charity set up to foster high standards in news on behalf of the public, and funded by donations from charitable foundations.

Each week Journalisted produces a summary of the most covered news stories, most active journalists and those topics falling off the news agenda, using its database of UK journalists and news sources.

for the week ending Sunday 30 January

  • Sexist remarks by two football commentators and phone hacking received much coverage
  • Egyptian protests and the leaking of the ‘Palestine papers’ dominated headlines
  • Drugs from Britain used on US death row and the return of a Tunisian Islamist leader received little attention

Covered lots

Covered little

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

Celebrity vs serious

Who wrote a lot about…’protests in Egypt’

Jack Shenker – 13 articles (The Guardian), James Hider – 11 articles (The Times), Peter Beaumont – 10 articles (The Guardian), Roula Khalaf – 7 articles (Financial Times), Adrian Blomfield – 6 articles (Telegraph)

Long form journalism

More from the Media Standards Trust:

The Media Standards Trust’s panel event ‘Libel reform: in the public’s interest?’ is available to watch on our website

The Media Standards Trust’s unofficial database of PCC complaints is available for browsing at www.complaints.pccwatch.co.uk

For the latest instalment of Tobias Grubbe, journalisted’s 18th century jobbing journalist, go to journalisted.com/tobias-grubbe

Journalisted Weekly: Brisbane floods, Arizona shootings, and Tunisia protests

Journalisted is an independent, not-for-profit website built to make it easier for you, the public, to find out more about journalists and what they write about. It is run by the Media Standards Trust, a registered charity set up to foster high standards in news on behalf of the public, and funded by donations from charitable foundations.

Each week Journalisted produces a summary of the most covered news stories, most active journalists and those topics falling off the news agenda, using its database of UK journalists and news sources.

for the week ending Sunday 16 January

  • Floods in Brisbane and shootings in Arizona dominated the news during the week
  • Protests leading to the ousting of Tunisia’s government received much coverage over the weekend
  • Northern & Shell, Stuxnet, and controversy over Welsh organ donation received little coverage

Covered lots

Covered little

  • Renewed controversy over the Stuxnet cyber virus, which attacked Iran’s nuclear programme last year, 8 articles
  • Northern & Shell, the group that owns the Express, Star and OK! pulls out of the UK press self-regulation system, 7 articles
  • The Welsh Assembly Government calling for a ‘soft opt-out’ policy for organ donation and raising controversy over human rights, 4 articles

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

Celebrity vs serious

Who wrote a lot about…’Tunisia’

Richard Spencer – 9 articles (Telegraph), James Bones – 8 articles (The Times), Roula Khalaf – 7 articles (Financial Times), Heba Saleh – 5 articles (Financial Times), Colin Freeman (Telegraph) – 4 articles, Angelique Chrisafis – 4 articles (The Guardian)

Long form journalism

From The Media Standards Trust

The Media Standards Trust’s panel event ‘Libel reform: in the public’s interest?’ is now available to watch on our website

The Media Standards Trust’s unofficial database of PCC complaints is available for browsing at www.complaints.pccwatch.co.uk

For the latest instalment of Tobias Grubbe, journalisted’s 18th century jobbing journalist, go to journalisted.com/tobias-grubbe

Not fit for purpose: the year’s most overused phrases in journalism

John Rentoul has revised and updated his ‘Banned List’ of overused phrases – typically by journalists – and it is well worth a read by writers of all kinds. It continues to warn against the criminal practice of turning nouns into verbs (action, disconnect, leverage, storyline, among others), as well as irritating, incomprehensible acronyms (IMO, IMHO, LOL, ROFL and so on) and tired phrases (learning curve, raising awareness, celebrating diversity).

Following Rentoul’s efforts, Journalisted has turned its expert counters of all things journalistic to 2010’s most overused phrases.

Writers of all kinds, beware.

Full Journalisted Yearly round-up at this link…

Journalisted Weekly: More snow, big leaks, and World Cup bid fury

Journalisted is an independent, not-for-profit website built to make it easier for you, the public, to find out more about journalists and what they write about. It is run by the Media Standards Trust, a registered charity set up to foster high standards in news on behalf of the public, and funded by donations from charitable foundations.

Each week Journalisted produces a summary of the most covered news stories, most active journalists and those topics falling off the news agenda, using its database of UK journalists and news sources. From now on we’ll be cross-posting them on Journalism.co.uk.

for the week ending Sunday 5 December

  • An avalanche of snow and a WikiLeaks flood deluged the news
  • England’s World Cup bid failure generated anger at FIFA
  • Attempted assassinations in Tehran, and a US school hostage-taking received little attention

See new profiles for UK national newspaper editors on Journalisted

The Media Standards Trust’s unofficial database of PCC complaints is now available for browsing at www.complaints.pccwatch.co.uk

For the latest instalment of Tobias Grubbe, journalisted’s 18th century jobbing journalist, go to journalisted.com/tobias-grubbe

Covered lots

  • WikiLeaks, which released 250,000 secret US diplomatic cables into the public domain, 851 articles
  • More snow, with airports closing and Scotland worst affected, 699 articles
  • England’s bid losing out in the voting for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, causing outrage and sparking critcism of FIFA, 577 articles

Covered little

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

Celebrity vs serious

  • Ann Widdecombe, in the week she finally left ‘Strictly Come Dancing’, 43 articles vs. former MP David Chaytor, facing imprisonment on admitting expenses fraud, 25 articles
  • Cheryl Cole, who has been chosen to be a judge on America’s X Factor in £3 million deal, 98 articles vs. Haiti’s election, characterised as fraudulent and badly organised, 16 articles
  • Angelina Jolie, premiering her new film ‘The Tourist’, 32 articles vs. a huge forest fire in northern Israel, killing 41 and prompting aid from foreign fire crews including Palestinians, 29 articles

Who wrote a lot about…’Putin’s Russia’

Luke Harding – 17 articles (The Guardian), Andrew Osborn – 10 articles (The Telegraph), Tony Halpin – 8 articles (The Times), Sam Wallace – 7 articles (The Independent), Tom Parfitt – 6 articles (The Guardian)

Long form journalism

Journalisted Weekly: Student protests, Korean clashes and lots of snow

Journalisted is an independent, not-for-profit website built to make it easier for you, the public, to find out more about journalists and what they write about. It is run by the Media Standards Trust, a registered charity set up to foster high standards in news on behalf of the public, and funded by donations from charitable foundations.

Each week Journalisted produces a summary of the most covered news stories, most active journalists and those topics falling off the news agenda, using its database of UK journalists and news sources. From now on we’ll be cross-posting them on Journalism.co.uk.

Student protests, Korean clashes, & lots of snow

For the week ending Sunday 28 November:

  • Snow coated the news as well as the country;
  • Students continued to occupy on-campus departments and the headlines;
  • A brewing North Korea and South Korea conflict drew attention away from a deadly stampede in Cambodia, strikes in Portugal, and violence in Rio.

Covered lots

  • Snow, with school, work and road closures as lots it began to cover lots of the UK, 229 articles;
  • More student protests, including school pupils marching on Whitehall, wrecking a police van and constrained by kettling, 187 articles;
  • North Korea and South Korea, with the North firing across the western sea border killing two civilians and two soldiers last week, 174 articles.

Covered little

Political ups and downs (top 10 by number of articles)

  • David Cameron: 565 articles (+1 per cent on previous week);
  • George Osborne: 231 articles (+11 per cent on previous week);
  • Nick Clegg: 199 articles (-23 per cent on previous week);
  • Ed Miliband: 183 articles (+30 per cent on previous week);
  • Gordon Brown: 147 articles (+19 per cent on previous week);
  • Michael Gove: 136 articles (+3 per cent on previous week);
  • Tony Blair: 125 articles (+24 per cent on previous week);
  • Vince Cable: 119 articles (-5 per cent on previous week);
  • Theresa May: 86 articles (+171 per cent on previous week).

Celebrity vs serious

Bishop Pete Broadbent‘s comment on Prince William’s marriage to Kate Middleton not lasting more than 7 years, 29 articles vs. Tory peer Howard Flight‘s comment on welfare changes encouraging poorer classes to breed, 33 articles.

Simon Cowell, X Factor judge, 94 articles vs. the trapped New Zealand miners, declared dead following another underground blast, 106 articles.

TV show ‘I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here’, 64 articles vs. violence in the favelas of Rio, as police and drug gangs clash killing more than 40 people, 43 articles.

Who wrote a lot about…’The Ashes’

Colin Bateman – 15 articles (the Express), Stephen Brenkley – 15 articles (the Independent), David Hopps – 14 articles (the Guardian), John Etheridge – 13 articles (the Sun), Lawrence Booth – 10 articles (Mail Online), Nick Hoult – 10 articles (the Telegraph), Derek Pringle – 9 articles (the Telegraph)

Long-form journalism

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Journalisted Weekly: Republicans, Gareth Bale, and university fees

Journalisted is an independent, not-for-profit website built to make it easier for you, the public, to find out more about journalists and what they write about. It is run by the Media Standards Trust, a registered charity set up to foster high standards in news on behalf of the public, and funded by donations from charitable foundations.

Each week Journalisted produces a summary of the most covered news stories, most active journalists and those topics falling off the news agenda, using its database of UK journalists and news sources. From now on we’ll be cross-posting them on Journalism.co.uk.

For the week ending Sunday 7 November

  • The Republicans, who made a strong comeback against Obama in the US mid-terms, were covered lots
  • Gareth Bale’s performance against Internazionale attracted many admiring pieces
  • Though there was little coverage of the mass grave uncovered in Mexico, or of the record ransom claimed by Somali pirates
  • The Media Standards Trust’s latest report ‘Shrinking World: The decline of international reporting in the British press’ is now available to download

For the latest instalment of Tobias Grubbe, journalisted’s 18th century jobbing journalist, go to journalisted.com/tobias-grubbe

Covered lots

  • Republicans, who won enough seats in the US mid-terms to take control of the House of Representatives, 340 articles (with the insurgent ‘Tea Party’ generating 261 articles)
  • Gareth Bale, the architect of Tottenham Hotspur’s victory over Internazionale, 189 articles
  • University fees, rising to £9,000 by 2012 after proposed Coalitian cuts, 122 articles

Covered little

  • Somali pirates, having received a record ransom of £7.6 million for South Korean oil tanker and a Singaporean ship, 12 articles
  • A vision chip, which has restored sight to a blind man following tests in Germany, 10 articles
  • A mass grave uncovered near Acapulco in Mexico, alleged to be a revenge killing between two drug cartel families, 8 articles

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

David Cameron: 480 articles (-27% on previous week)
George Osborne: 130 articles (-70% on previous week)
Theresa May: 130 articles (+160% on previous week)
Nick Clegg : 118 articles (-20% on previous week)
Vince Cable : 113 articles (+110% on previous week)
Gordon Brown : 100 articles (+19% on previous week)
Tony Blair : 83 articles (+4% on previous week)
Ed Miliband : 75 articles (+19% on previous week)
William Hague : 56 articles (-42% on previous week)
Michael Gove: 53 articles (-15% on previous week)

Celebrity vs serious

Stephen Fry’s remark on women not liking sex, 36 articles vs.Christians threatened in Iraq, after a bomb attack on a Baghdad church killed 58 people and injured 67, 25 articles
Lady Gaga, winning 3 MTV Europe Awards on Sunday, 63 articles vs. Indonesia’s erupting Mount Merapi, killing 130 people and forcing 200,000 to flee their homes, 50 articles
Cheryl Cole, presenter of the X-Factor whose album – Messy little raindrops – went straight to number one, 95 articles vs. Burma’s first general election in two decades, 49 articles

Who wrote a lot about…’India and the US’

James Lamont – 10 articles (Financial Times); James Fontanella-Khan – 6 articles (Financial Times); Jason Burke – 5 articles (The Guardian); Edward Luce – 5 articles (Financial Times)

Long form journalism

4,005 words: ‘Does torture work?’, John Lloyd, Financial Times, 5th November 2010
3,405 words: ‘The Knox watchers: Meet the people who are obsessed with Amanda Knox’s fate’, Peter Popham, The Independent, 6th November 2010
3,255 words: ‘Latin lessons: What can we learn from the world’s most ambitious literacy campaign?’, Nina Lakhani, The Independent, 7th November 2010

Journalisted weekly: Obama, bomb plots, and housing benefit

Journalisted is an independent, not-for-profit website built to make it easier for you, the public, to find out more about journalists and what they write about. It is run by the Media Standards Trust, a registered charity set up to foster high standards in news on behalf of the public, and funded by donations from charitable foundations.

Each week Journalisted produces a summary of the most covered news stories, most active journalists and those topics falling off the news agenda, using its database of UK journalists and news sources. From now on we’ll be cross-posting them on Journalism.co.uk.

For the week ending Sunday 31 October

  • President Obama appeared in more articles than all UK politicians, bar one
  • Housing benefit covered extensively, thanks in part to Boris Johnson’s ‘Kosovo’ comparison
  • Brazil’s presidential election, and a spat on the North-South Korean border, received little coverage


The Media Standards Trust’s latest report ‘Shrinking World: The decline of international reporting in the British press’ is now available to download

For the latest instalment of Tobias Grubbe, journalisted’s 18th century jobbing journalist, go to journalisted.com/tobias-grubbe

Covered lots

  • President Obama, whose party is predicted to take heavy losses in the US midterm elections, 416 articles
  • Cuts to housing benefit, with fears of ‘social cleansing’ and suburban flight, 224 articles
  • Another plane bomb plot with suspected terrorist links to Yemen, 150 articles

Covered little

  • The Brazilian presidential election, with governing party candidate Dilma Rousseff elected as the country’s first female leader, 24 articles
  • North Korea and South Korea, with shots reportedly fired across the border, 10 articles
  • Google, the focus of a parliamentary debate on privacy and the internet last Thursday, 8 articles

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

Celebrity vs serious

  • Wayne Rooney holidaying in Dubai, having agreed to stay with Manchester United, 86 articles vs. WikiLeaks, having published almost 400,000 documents about US military actions in Iraq, 87 articles
  • Cheryl Cole, X Factor judge, 109 articles, vs. an earthquake triggering a tsunami off the coast of Sumatra, killing over 400 people, 57 articles
  • The ‘Emperor’ stag of Exmoor, rumoured shot dead by a foreign trophy hunter, 51 articles vs. the EU summit, with Chancellor Merkel striving for EU law reform to help with bail outs, also 51 articles

Who wrote a lot about…’Yemen’

Duncan Gardham – 7 articles (the Telegraph), Chris McGreal – 6 articles (the Guardian), Gordon Rayner – 5 articles (the Telegraph), Vikram Dodd – 5 articles (the Guardian), Dan Milmo– 4 articles (the Guardian)

Long form journalism

Journalisted Weekly: Spending review, Rooney and the BBC

Journalisted is an independent, not-for-profit website built to make it easier for you, the public, to find out more about journalists and what they write about. It is run by the Media Standards Trust, a registered charity set up to foster high standards in news on behalf of the public, and funded by donations from charitable foundations.

Each week Journalisted produces a summary of the most covered news stories, most active journalists and those topics falling off the news agenda, using its database of UK journalists and news sources. From now on we’ll be cross-posting them on Journalism.co.uk.

For the week ending Sunday 24 October

  • The much anticipated comprehensive spending review received lots and lots of coverage;
  • Wayne Rooney’s contract negotiations spilled from the sports sections onto the front pages;
  • There was little press interest in China’s new leader-in-waiting and the Brazilian presidential run-off.

Covered lots

  • The comprehensive spending review, announced in full last week, 1,045 articles;
  • Wayne Rooney, threatening to leave Manchester United, 677 articles;
  • The BBC, which avoided taking on the cost of TV licenses for over-75s by offering to start paying for the World Service BBC Monitoring, and various other bits and pieces, 109 articles.

Covered little

  • Xi Jinping, reported to be the likely successor to President Hu Jintao after his promotion to China’s military commission, 15 articles;
  • The Obama administration announcing the largest US arms deal in history, going to Saudi Arabia, 9 articles;
  • Jose Serra, an increasingly close contender for the Brazilian presidency run-off this weekend, 3 articles.

Political ups and downs (top 10 by number of articles)

  • George Osborne: 801 articles (+153 per cent on previous week);
  • David Cameron: 574 articles (-10 per cent on previous week);
  • Nick Clegg: 239 articles (+20 per cent on previous week);
  • Alan Johnson: 153 articles (+99 per cent on previous week);
  • Ed Miliband: 142 articles (-11 per cent on previous week);
  • Vince Cable: 135 articles (-45 per cent on previous week);
  • Gordon Brown: 120 articles (-16 per cent on previous week);
  • Tony Blair: 98 articles (-19 per cent on previous week);
  • Danny Alexander: 96 articles (+78 per cent on previous week);
  • Liam Fox: 77 articles (-14 per cent on previous week).

Celebrity vs serious

Who wrote a lot about…the ‘Tea Party’

Ed Pilkington – 8 articles (the Guardian), Richard Adams – 7 articles (the Guardian), Alex Spillius – 6 articles (the Telegraph), Anna Fifield – 4 articles (FT), Edward Luce – 4 articles (FT), Lloyd Marcus – 4 articles (the Guardian).

Long form journalism

Journalisted Weekly: Chilean Miners, Liverpool FC and defence cuts

Journalisted is an independent, not-for-profit website built to make it easier for you, the public, to find out more about journalists and what they write about. It is run by the Media Standards Trust, a registered charity set up to foster high standards in news on behalf of the public, and funded by donations from charitable foundations.

Each week Journalisted produces a summary of the most covered news stories, most active journalists and those topics falling off the news agenda, using its database of UK journalists and news sources. From now on we’ll be cross-posting them on Journalism.co.uk.

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For the week ending Sunday 17 October:

  • 33 trapped Chilean miners received huge media coverage early in the week, reaching a peak after their successful rescue on Wednesday
  • Political debate focused on UK defence cuts, cyber war, home terror, and natural disasters
  • The death of asylum seeker Jimmy Mubenga, while being forcibly repatriated, received little coverage

Covered lots

  • The 33 Chilean miners, finally rescued after 69 days trapped underground, 287 articles
  • The Liverpool FC buyout, sold to US company New England Sports on Friday, 284 articles
  • UK defence cuts, eventually agreed after weeks of sometimes acrimonious wrangling, 236 articles

Covered little

  • The death of asylum seeker Jimmy Mubenga, with suspected mishandling by security officials enforcing his deportation, 20 articles
  • Two miners in Ecuador killed and two more trapped by a cave-in on Friday, 14 articles
  • A Somali-American, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, sworn in as Somalia’s new Prime Minister, 1 article

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

  • David Cameron: 635 articles (+7 per cent on previous week)
  • George Osborne: 317 articles (-39 per cent on previous week)
  • Vince Cable: 246 articles (+92 per cent on previous week)
  • Nick Clegg: 200 articles (+30 per cent on previous week)
  • Ed Miliband: 160 articles (-44 per cent on previous week)
  • Gordon Brown: 143 articles (-15 per cent on previous week)
  • William Hague: 124 articles (-7 per cent on previous week)
  • Tony Blair: 121 articles (-7 per cent on previous week)
  • Liam Fox 90 articles (-8 per cent on previous week)
  • Alan Johnson: 77 articles (-44 per cent on previous week)

Celebrity vs serious

Who wrote a lot about…’Chilean Miners’

Carl Markham – 13 articles (The Independent), Martin Fletcher – 11 articles (The Times), Fiona Govan – 10 articles (The Telegraph), Rory Carroll – 9 articles (The Guardian), Jude Webber – 9 articles (Financial Times), Guy Adams – 5 articles (The Independent)

Long form journalism

NewsInnovation videos from @newsmatters: featuring @kevglobal, @currybet, @markng, @simonw, @willperrin

The Media Standards Trust has finished uploading content from its NewsInnovation event, held in association with NESTA and the WSRI, earlier this month to its YouTube channel.

[Previous Journalism.co.uk coverage at this link]

We’ll embed the first segment of each session, and for further installments follow the links below each video.

Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5.

  • Kevin Anderson (@kevglobal) Guardian blogs editor talks about news business models.

Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.

  • Ben Campbell talks about the Media Standards Trust website, Journalisted.

Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.

  • Will Perrin (@willperrin) on digital possibilities for the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War.

Part 2.

  • Simon Willison (@simonw) of The Guardian talks about using the crowd to sift through MPs’ expenses.

Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.

  • Martin Belam (@currybet) information architect at the Guardian on ‘The tyranny of chronology’.

Part 2, Part 3.