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for the week ending Sunday 19 June
Covered lots
- Royal Ascot, the big annual race meeting, plus a drunken brawl, 303 articles
- Greece’s financial crisis, with anti-austerity riots in Athens and Prime Minister George Papandreou offering to step down or form a unity government, 158 articles
- Andy Murray wins the AEGON tournament at Queen’s tennis club, the week before Wimbledon, 141 articles
- The row over public sector pensions, with Danny Alexander announcing a rise in retirement age to 66 and quarter of a million workers threatening strike action, 119 articles
Covered little
- North Sudan dropping bombs along its border with South Sudan, with local rights groups reporting up to 65 deaths, 9 articles
- Lebanon annouces its new Hezbollah-dominated cabinet, headed by PM Mikati, after 5 months without a functioning government, 5 articles
- The Centre for Social Justice reports at least 6,000 women are believed to have been trafficked into the UK last year, 3 articles
- Hate mail received by several UK Mosques, containing an unknown powder initially feared to be anthrax, later discovered to be harmless, 1 article
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- David Cameron: 557 articles (-15% on previous week)
- George Osborne: 330 articles (+83% on previous week)
- Ed Miliband: 226 articles (+2% on previous week)
- Nick Clegg: 181 articles (+18% on previous week)
- Tony Blair: 167 articles (-39% on previous week)
- Gordon Brown: 127 articles (-28% on previous week)
- Ed Balls: 126 articles (-18% on previous week)
- Andrew Lansley: 123 articles (+35% on previous week)
- Danny Alexander: 108 articles (+1,000% on previous week)
- Alex Salmond: 96 articles (+1% on previous week)
Celebrity vs serious
- Footballer Frank Lampard, engaged to TV star Christine Bleakley, 60 articles vs. Al Qaida annoucing their new leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, 39 articles
- Hugh Hefner, dumped the week of his wedding, 33 articles vs. the ‘Gay Girl in Damascus’ blog, actually written by a 40-something American man in Edinburgh, 25 articles
- Singer Amy Winehouse, drunk on stage in Serbia, 13 articles vs. a Venezuelan prison riot sparked by two rival gangs, with 19 killed, 5 articles
Arab spring (countries & current leaders)
- Libya and Colonel Gaddafi, 173 articles (+2% on previous week)
- Syria and President Bashar Al-Assad, 122 articles (-23% on previous week)
- Turkey and Prime Minster Erdogan, 50 articles (-35% on previous week)
- Yemen and President Saleh, 21 articles (-72% on previous week)
- Gaza and Hamas, 11 articles (+18% on previous week)
- Bahrain and King Al Khalifa, 9 articles (0% on previous week)
- Iran and President Ahmadinejad, 9 articles (-40% on previous week)
- Jordan and King Abdullah, 9 articles (+200% on previous week)
- Morocco and King Mohammed VI, 7 articles (+700% on previous week)
- West Bank and President Abbas, 7 articles (0% on previous week)
- Israel and Prime Minister Netanyahu, 6 articles (-6% on previous week)
- Saudi Arabia and King Abdullah, 6 articles (-14% on previous week)
- Lebanon and Prime Minister Mikati, 5 articles (+200% on previous week)
- UAE and President Al Nahyan, 1 articles (+50% on previous week)
- Egypt’s Military Council, 1 articles (+50% on previous week)
Who wrote a lot about…’US Open’
Long form journalism
- 2,802 words: The ghettoisation of pink: how it has cornered the little-girl market – Peggy Orenstein, The Observer, 19th June 2011
- 2,481 words: The people’s gurus aiming to bring India back from the brink – Jason Burke, The Guardian, 15th June 2011
- 2,436 words: Pakistan revisited – David Pilling, Financial Times, 17th June 2011
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