Hillsborough, Stevens and Mohamud
for the week ending Sunday 16 September
- Hillsborough Independent Panel findings covered most
- Benghazi consulate storming and subsequent unrest covered lots
- Assassination attempt on new Somali president covered little
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Covered Lots
- The Hillsborough Independent Panel releases its findings, 501 articles
- US diplomat Christopher Stevens killed in storming of consulate in Benghazi, 177 articles
- Andy Murray wins the US Open, 136 articles
… and the French edition of Closer Magazine publishes topless photos of Kate Middleton without her consent, 57 articles.
Covered Little
- Fraud and false accounting trial begins for trader accused of losing UBS billions, 22 articles
- Leading Khmer Rouge figure released after being found unfit for trial by Cambodian genocide tribunal, 8 articles
- Hassan Skeikh Mohamud, Somalia’s newly-elected president, escapes assassination attempt, 5 articles
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- David Cameron, 476 articles (-16% on last week)
- Boris Johnson, 175 articles (14% on last week)
- George Osborne, 160 articles (-56% on last week)
- Ed Miliband, 134 articles (21% on last week)
- Nick Clegg, 128 articles (-32% on last week)
- Vince Cable, 115 articles (-8% on last week)
- Tony Blair, 78 articles (-33% on last week)
- Michael Gove, 77 articles (-14% on last week)
- Alex Salmond, 71 articles (-13% on last week)
- Gordon Brown, 58 articles (-13% on last week)
Celebrity vs Serious
- Chris Moyles’ tenure at Radio 1 comes to an end, 30 articles vs Bernard Arnault, France’s richest man,sues Libération for ‘insulting’ headline, 4 articles.
- Rihanna and Chris Brown (separately) get new tattoos, 12 articles vs Guantanamo inmate dies, 2 articles.
- New series of Strictly Come Dancing begins, 96 articles vs Russian Prime Minister Medvedev calls two-year sentence handed to Pussy Riot ‘counterproductive’, 8 articles.
Eurozone leaders (top ten by number of articles)
- Angela Merkel (Germany), 51 articles (+11% on last week)
- François Hollande (France), 41 articles (-7% on last week)
- Mariano Rajoy (Spain), 27 articles (-29% on last week)
- Mark Rutte (Netherlands), 22 articles (+214% on last week)
- Antonis Samaras (Greece), 18 articles (+125% on last week)
- Helle Thorning-Schmidt (Denmark), 17 articles (from 0 last week)
- Mario Monti (Italy), 10 articles (-55% on last week)
- Jean-Claude Juncker (Luxembourg), 7 articles (=250% on last week)
- Pedro Passos Coelho (Portugal), 5 articles (+67% on last week)
- Enda Kenny (Ireland), 5 articles (+150% on last week)
Who wrote a lot about… Hillsborough
- James Young, Independent, 12 articles
- Brian Mallon, Independent, 8 articles
- David Conn, Guardian, 7 articles
- Ann Gripper, Mirror, 6 articles
Long form journalism
- 4,641 words, Hillsborough: Brian Reade on the day that changed football for ever by Brian Reade Daily Mirror
- 4,399 words, Battle starts for the new Bank of England Governor by Philip Aldrick Daily Telegraph
- 4,028 words, The whistleblowers club by Carola Hoyos Financial Times
