Ryder Cup, Megan and Unionist parade
for the week ending Sunday 30 September
- 2012 Ryder Cup covered most
- 15-year-old Megan Stammers absconds with teacher covered lots
- Thousands gather at Unionist parade covered little
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Covered Lots
- Golfing stars begin competing for the 2012 Ryder Cup, 502 articles
- 15-year-old Megan Stammers and her teacher Jeremy Forrest are caught in Bordeaux where he is arrested on suspision of abduction, 182 articles
- The Liberal Democrat Party Conference takes place in Brighton, 163 articles
Covered Little
- A reported crowd of 30,000 gather peacefully to take part in the Unionist parade to mark Ulster Covenant centenary, 15 articles
- Suicide attackers bomb military HQ killing four in Damascus, 6 articles
- US man shoots dead his own son while investigating a suspected burglary, 3 articles
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- David Cameron, 516 articles (+29% on last week)
- Nick Clegg, 319 articles (+19% on last week)
- Andrew Mitchell, 203 articles (+157% on last week)
- Ed Miliband, 175 articles (+157% on last week)
- Vince Cable, 171 articles (+152% on last week)
- George Osborne, 152 articles (-15% on last week)
- Tony Blair, 121 articles (+48% on last week)
- Boris Johnson, 104 articles (+51% on last week)
- Gordon Brown, 90 articles (+143% on last week)
- Ed Balls, 89 articles (+197% on last week)
Celebrity vs Serious
- Former The Hills star Kristin Cavallari shows off post pregnancy body and announces plans for another baby, 7 articles vs Iran warn that they are ready to retaliate attack after Israel urged a red line to be drawn to stop its nuclear programme, 3 articles.
- The Ryder Cup wives are presented, 26 articles vs Nasa finds evidence for existence of streams on planet Mars, 6 articles.
- Emma Watson promotes first starring role in The Perks of Being a Wallflower, 45 articles vs one of the Libyan rebels credited with capturing Gaddafi has been buried in his hometown, 3 articles.
Eurozone leaders (top ten by number of articles)
- Mariano Rajoy (Spain), 68 articles (+134% on last week)
- François Hollande (France), 48 articles (+33% on last week)
- Angela Merkel (Germany), 45 articles (+7% on last week)
- Mario Monti (Italy), 22 articles (+214% on last week)
- Antonis Samaras (Greece), 19 articles (+58% on last week)
- Enda Kenny (Ireland), 3 articles (-50% on last week)
- Lucas Papademos (Portugal), 1 articles (from 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)
There were no other Eurozone leaders covered this week.
Who wrote a lot about… Apple Maps
- Charles Arthur, The Guardian, 7 articles
- Mark Prigg, MailOnline, 4 articles
- Tim Bradshaw, Financial Times, 3 articles
- Eddie Wrenn, MailOnline, 3 articles
- Lauren Rogers, herefordtimes.com, 3 articles
Long form journalism
- 4,611 words, The air force men who fly drones in Afghanistan by remote control by Rob Blackhurst The Daily Telegraph
- 4,382 words, Hanna Rosin: are men an endangered species? by Hanna Rosin The Observer
- 3,758 words, You could be PM, Tony said: Jack Straw reveals how Blair secretly encouraged him to stand against Gordon Brown – and the fears that made him refuse by Jack Straw MailOnline
