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Autumn statement, Starbucks tax and Nelson Mandela
for the week ending Sunday 9 December
- Chancellor’s autumn statement covered most
- Starbucks’ tax arrangements covered lots
- Nelson Mandela in hospital covered little
Covered Lots
- The Chancellor delivers his autumn statement warning of austerity until 2018, 745 articles
- Coffee chain Starbucks engages in talks with HMRC over their tax paid, 226 articles
- St James’s Palace announces the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expecting their first child, 138 articles
Covered Little
- Nelson Mandela is admitted to hospital for tests, 19 articles
- New tsunami fear for Japan as 7.3 magnitude earthquake strikes off east coast, 18 articles
- Exams watchdog Ofqual urges Michael Gove to rethink ‘unrealistic’ plans for GCSE overhaul, 11 articles
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- George Osborne, 702 articles (+129% on last week)
- David Cameron, 425 articles (-37% on last week)
- Ed Balls, 142 articles (+225% on last week)
- Nick Clegg, 141 articles (-38%% on last week)
- Boris Johnson, 123 articles (-13% on last week)
- Ed Miliband, 120 articles (-50% on last week)
- Danny Alexander, 80 articles (+471% on last week)
- Gordon Brown, 80 articles (-4% on last week)
- Alex Salmond, 78 articles (-7% on last week)
- Michael Gove, 75 articles (-36% on last week)
Celebrity vs Serious
- One Direction’s Harry Styles and singer Taylor Swift are rumoured to be dating, 33 articles vs ChildLine reports a sharp rise in the number of self-harm calls, 5 articles
- I’m A Celebrity contestant Helen Flanagan arrives at the Military Awards 2012, 5 articles vs Ash disease outbreaks double in a month as conservation groups criticize government’s response, 2 articles
- Winner of the X Factor James Arthur says ‘I’m a great lover’, 2 articles vs Nasa reveals plans to launch a new Mars rover by 2020, 2 articles
Eurozone leaders (top ten by number of articles)
- Angela Merkel (Germany), 46 articles (+18% on last week)
- Mario Monti (Italy), 38 articles (+81% on last week)
- François Hollande (France), 25 articles (-24%% on last week)
- Mario Draghi (ECB President), 21 articles (-25% on last week)
- Herman Van Rompuy (EU President), 9 articles (-18% on last week)
- Mariano Rajoy (Spain), 5 articles (-69% on last week)
- Antonis Samaras (Greece), 4 articles (-56% on last week)
- Jean-Claude Juncker (Luxembourg), 4 articles (-43% on last week)
- José Manuel Barroso (President of Euro Commission), 4 articles (+300% on last week)
- Borut Pahor (Slovenia), 3 articles (+50% on last week)
Who wrote a lot about… 2Day FM
- Gordon Rayner, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph, 9 articles
- Jonathan Pearlman, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph, 7 articles
- Alison Rourke, The Guardian, 6 articles
- Paul McSweeny, entertainmentwise.com, 5 articles
- Caroline Davies, The Guardian, 5 articles
Long form journalism
- 3,851 words, Mexico’s drug war: a poet and the people fight back by Alfonso Daniels The Daily Telegraph
- 3,096 words, A class of their own by Josh Noble Financial Times (£)
- 2,555 words, Generation Rent: why millions are locked out of owning homes by Lucy Rock The Observer
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