Policewomen, apology and miners
for the week ending Sunday 23 September
- Murdered Manchester policewomen covered most
- Nick Clegg’s apology for raising tuition fees covered lots
- Murikana miners return to work covered little
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Covered Lots
- Two policewomen shot dead during service in Manchester, 138 articles
- Nick Clegg apologises for raising tuition fees (and it’s made into a spoof song), 111 articles
- Chief whip Andrew Mitchell faces calls to quit after admitting he swore at police, 79 articles
Covered Little
- Marikana miners return to work, 19 articles
- Harriet Harman says Labour won’t be “cosying up” to the Liberal Democrats, 4 articles
- Welsh pupils receive their regraded GCSEs, 6 articles
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- David Cameron, 399 articles (-16% on last week)
- Nick Clegg, 269 articles (+110% on last week)
- George Osborne, 178 articles (+11% on last week)
- Vince Cable, 103 articles (+78% on last week)
- Michael Gove, 88 articles (+14% on last week)
- Tony Blair, 82 articles (+5% on last week)
- Andrew Mitchell, 79 articles (+618% on last week)
- Iain Duncan Smith, 70 articles (+112% on last week)
- Boris Johnson, 69 articles (-61% on last week)
- Ed Miliband, 68 articles (-49% on last week)
Celebrity vs Serious
- Tulisa promotes her new book alongside X-factor judging duties, 47 articles vs infamous Colombian drug lord Daniel Barrera arrested, 7 articles.
- Speculation over the existence of a Kanye West sex-tape, 4 articles vs a new study suggests that nearly a third of cancers in over 70-year-olds are diagnosed in A&E, 4 articles.
- The nation anticipates a new season of Downton Abbey, 94 articles vs British baby born on the frontline in Afghanistan, 19 articles.
Eurozone leaders (top ten by number of articles)
- Angela Merkel (Germany), 68 articles (+33% on last week)
- François Hollande (France), 36 articles (-12% on last week)
- Mariano Rajoy (Spain), 29 articles (+7% on last week)
- Antonis Samaras (Greece), 12 articles (-33% on last week)
- Mario Monti (Italy), 7 articles (-30% on last week)
- Enda Kenny (Ireland), 6 articles (+20% on last week)
- Pedro Passos Coelho (Portugal), 5 articles (0% on last week)
- Jean-Claude Juncker (Luxembourg), 3 articles (-57% on last week)
- Jyrki Katainen (Finland), 2 articles (-33% on last week)
- Mark Rutte (Netherlands), 1 article (-95% on last week)
Who wrote a lot about… Mitt Romney
- Anna Fifield, Financial Times, 9 articles
- Ewen MacAskill, The Guardian, 8 articles
- Richard McGregor, Financial Times, 8 articles
- Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Financial Times, 7 articles
- David Usborne, The Independent, 7 articles
Long form journalism
- 4,548 words, Barack Obama: can he win again? by Gary Younge The Guardian
- 4,284 words, The drugs don’t work: a modern medical scandal by Philip Aldrick The Guardian
- 4,110 words, Nick Clegg: the fightback by George Parker Financial Times