Savile, April and Militants
for the week ending Sunday 7 October
- Jimmy Savile abuse allegations covered most
- 5-year-old April Jones abducted covered lots
- Militant Islamists kill suspected murderer covered little
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Covered Lots
- Fresh allegations made against TV personality Jimmy Savile for the sexual abuse of young girls, 287 articles
- 5-year-old girl April Jones is abducted in Machynlleth, 245 articles
- The Labour Party Conference takes place in Manchester, 160 articles
Covered Little
- Militant Islamists kill suspected murderer by firing squad in Timbuktu, Mali, 1 article
- 11-year-old boy finds well-preserved mammoth carcass in Siberia, 4 articles
- Dutch ship offering abortions is vetoed from entering Moroccan port, 5 articles
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- David Cameron, 606 articles (+17% on last week)
- Ed Miliband, 470 articles (+169% on last week)
- Ed Balls, 182 articles (+104% on last week)
- Tony Blair, 150 articles (+24% on last week)
- George Osborne, 147 articles (-3% on last week)
- Boris Johnson, 130 articles (+25% on last week)
- Nick Clegg, 113 articles (-65% on last week)
- Gordon Brown, 103 articles (+14% on last week)
- Andrew Mitchell, 97 articles (-52% on last week)
- Jeremy Hunt, 96 articles (+465% on last week)
Celebrity vs Serious: Television Special
- The X Factor, 280 articles vs Funerals held for murdered police officers Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes, 55 articles
- Strictly Come Dancing, 104 articles vs Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza is extradited to the US, 85 articles
- The Only Way Is Essex, 39 articles vs “substantial and viable” bomb is made safe by army bomb experts in Belfast, 5 articles
Eurozone leaders (top ten by number of articles)
- Angela Merkel (Germany), 30 articles (-33% on last week)
- François Hollande (France), 26 articles (-46% on last week)
- Antonis Samaras (Greece), 45 articles (+5% on last week)
- Mariano Rajoy (Spain), 19 articles (-72% on last week)
- Mario Monti (Italy), 13 articles (-41% on last week)
- Enda Kenny (Ireland), 4 articles (+33% on last week)
- Jyrki Katainen (Finland), 3 articles (from 0 last week)
- Pedro Passos Coelho (Portugal), 1 article (from 0 last week)
There were no other Eurozone leaders covered this week.
Who wrote a lot about… Sexual Abuse
- Josh Halliday, The Guardian, 8 articles
- Paul Cockerton, The Mirror, 6 articles
- Dan Sabbagh, The Guardian, 4 articles
- Adam Sherwin, The Independent, 4 articles
- Richard Alleyne, The Daily Telegraph, 4 articles
Long form journalism
- 4,778 words, Michael Gove: the next Tory leader? by Decca Aitkenhead The Guardian
- 4,700 words, Was this Obama’s Jimmy Carter moment? President’s woeful debate compared to 1980 TV disaster that handed Reagan victory by Hugo Gye and Toby Harnden MailOnline
- 6,661 words, Rise of the megacities – get the data by Nick Mead The Guardian