Conservatives, Savile and NHS spending
for the week ending Sunday 14 October
- Conservative Party conference covered most
- Jimmy Savile abuse allegations covered lots
- NHS alcohol treatment spending covered little
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Covered Lots
- The Conservative Party conference takes place in Birmingham, 568 articles
- BBC launches two inquiries into its conduct as more allegations of sexual abuse emerge against TV personality Jimmy Savile, 400 articles
- Cyclist Lance Armstrong ‘ran most sophisticated doping programme ever’ report finds, 183 articles
Covered Little
- Five Royal Marines have been charged on suspicion of murder after footage was found on a laptop computer, 10 articles
- The NHS spends £825m treating alcohol-related illness in baby boomers far higher than young people, a study finds, 2 articles
- Frequency of strokes are rising in young people with about one in five victims now below the age of 55, says American Academy of Neurology Journal, 2 articles
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- David Cameron, 785 articles (+29% on last week)
- George Osborne, 364 articles (+148% on last week)
- Boris Johnson, 223 articles (+72% on last week)
- Ed Miliband, 200 articles (-57% on last week)
- Alex Salmond, 136 articles (+73% on last week)
- Nick Clegg, 127 articles (+12% on last week)
- Andrew Mitchell, 103 articles (+6% on last week)
- Philip Hammond, 98 articles (+191% on last week)
- Theresa May, 96 articles (+7% on last week)
- Michael Gove, 93 articles (+6% on last week)
Celebrity vs Serious
- Singer Cheryl Cole shows off her new boyfriend Tre Holloway, 20 articles vs 45,000 children will resit English GCSEs after grades row, 15 articles
- X Factor winner Leona Lewis opens up about her true feelings for One Direction teen, 11 articles vsbomb blast kills at least 15 in Pakistan marketplace, 4 articles
- Big Brother winner Chantelle Houghton thinks her baby’s father is still in love with ex-wife Katie Price, 2 articles vs Botswana overturns law preventing women from inheriting the family home, 2 articles
Eurozone leaders (top ten by number of articles)
- Angela Merkel (Germany), 140 articles (+367% on last week)
- François Hollande (France), 42 articles (+62% on last week)
- Antonis Samaras (Greece), 30 articles (+50% on last week)
- Mario Draghi (ECB President), 20 articles (-26% on last week)
- Mario Monti (Italy), 17 articles (+31% on last week)
- Herman Van Rompuy (EU President), 16 articles (+300% on last week)
- Mariano Rajoy (Spain), 13 articles (-32% on last week)
- Jean-Claude Juncker (Luxembourg), 9 articles (from 0 last week)
- José Manuel Barroso (President of Euro Commission), 9 articles (+200% on last week)
- Enda Kenny (Ireland), 4 articles (+0% on last week)
There were no other Eurozone leaders covered this week.
Who wrote a lot about… Malala Yousafzai
- Jon Boone, The Guardian, 6 articles
- Rob Crilly, The Daily Telegraph, 5 articles
- Michele Langevine Leiby, Financial Times (£), 2 articles
Long form journalism
- 4,952 words, The name’s Wilson, Michael Wilson by Liz Jobey Financial Times (£)
- 4,534 words, The teenage mum: ‘I like to prove people wrong’ by Len Grant The Guardian
- 4,024 words, The forgotten story of … England under Joe Mercer by Rob BagchiThe Guardian
