Journalisted also provides profiles of thousands of journalists and a weekly summary of press coverage which Inforrm reproduces with permission and thanks. This is the summary for the week ending 9 September 2012.
Paralympics, reshuffle and Nutkins
- Final week of the Paralympics covered most
- Cabinet reshuffle covered lots
- Terry Nutkins’ death covered little
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Covered Lots
- The final week of the Paralympic Games, 620 articles
- The cabinet undergoes its first major reshuffle, 322 articles
- Four people shot and killed near the French town of Annecy, 113 articles
Covered Little
- Crown Court judge claims that burglers need “a huge amount of courage, 28 articles
- Death of Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unitarian Church, 26 articles
- TV naturalist Terry Nutkins dies, 22 articles
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- David Cameron, 564 articles (+90% on last week)
- George Osborne, 362 articles (+83% on last week)
- Nick Clegg, 187 articles (+18% on last week)
- Jeremy Hunt, 182 articles (+314% on last week)
- Ken Clarke, 157 articles (+257% on last week)
- Boris Johnson, 154 articles (+62% on last week)
- Vince Cable, 125 articles (+102% on last week)
- Tony Blair, 116 articles (+68% on last week)
- Ed Miliband, 111 articles (+82% on last week)
- Andrew Lansley, 101 articles (+381% on last week)
Celebrity vs Serious
- Coldplay play a set at the Paralympic closing ceremony, 41 stories vs two police officers prosecuted for death of man under police restraint, 4 articles.
- The stars gather at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards, 21 articles vs Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales calls the government’s ‘snooper’s charter’ “technologically incompetent” and threatens to encrypt all communications with Britain should it go ahead, 2 articles.
- Jasmine Lennard makes controversial statements after Celebrity Big Brother exit, 15 articles vs Egyptian president calls for Syrian president Assad to step down, 4 articles.
Eurozone leaders (top ten by number of articles)
- Angela Merkel (Germany), 46 articles (no change on last week)
- François Hollande (France), 44 articles (-4% on last week)
- Mariano Rajoy (Spain), 38 articles (+58% on last week)
- Mario Monti (Italy), 22 articles (+10% on last week)
- Antonis Samaras (Greece), 8 articles (-43% on last week)
- Mark Rutte (Netherlands), 7 articles (+250% on last week)
- Pedros Passos Coelho (Portugal), 3 articles (+200% on last week)
- Enda Kenny (Ireland), 2 articles (no change on last week)
- Jean-Claude Juncker (Luxembourg), 2 articles (-33% on last week)
- Jyrki Katainen (Finland), 1 article (from 0 last week)
Who wrote a lot about… the Annecy shootings
- Kim Willsher, Guardian, 13 articles
- Henry Samuel, Telegraph, 7 articles
- Natalie Evans, Mirror, 6 articles
- Donna Bowater, Telegraph, 5 articles
Long form journalism
- 5,597 words, Rhinos under 24-hour armed guard by Jessamy Calkin Telegraph
- 4,408 words, Anonymous: behind the masks of the cyber insurgents by Carole Cadwalladr Guardian
- 3,809 words, ‘It was a good death, the kind most people would choose’ by Sophie Mackenzie Guardian