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Scotland, Mitchell and Tasers
for the week ending Sunday 21 October
- Scotland’s independence referendum covered most
- Andrew Mitchell resignation covered lots
- Blind man Tasered covered little
Covered Lots
- The ‘Edinburgh agreement’ marks the commencement of Scotland’s independence referendum, 215 articles
- Andrew Mitchell resigns amid allegations he called a police officer a ‘pleb’, 205 articles
- Theresa May blocks extradition of computer hacker Gary McKinnon, 127 articles
Covered Little
- Blind man is mistakenly Tasered after police mistake white stick for sword, 23 articles
- Police probe BNP leader Nick Griffin Twitter rant against gay couple, 19 articles
- Northern Ireland E coli outbreak classified as ‘major public health crisis’, 1 article
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- David Cameron, 735 articles (-6% on last week)
- George Osborne, 239 articles (-34% on last week)
- Andrew Mitchell, 205 articles (+101% on last week)
- Alex Salmond, 199 articles (+47% on last week)
- Theresa May, 184 articles (+92% on last week)
- Ed Miliband, 169 articles (-15% on last week)
- Nick Clegg, 127 articles (0% on last week)
- Boris Johnson, 101 articles (-55% on last week)
- Michael Gove, 94 articles (+2% on last week)
- Nicola Sturgeon, 73 articles (+49% on last week)
Celebrity vs Serious
- Singer Adele gives birth to baby son, 8 articles vs former Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi denies “intimate ties” with underage prostitute, 1 article
- Victoria Beckham steps out with baby daughter Harper, 8 articles vs US auction site eBay avoids paying £50m in tax, 4 articles
- Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson get back together, 15 articles vs suspected terrorist arrested for New York Federal Reserve bomb plot 15 articles
Eurozone leaders (top ten by number of articles)
- Angela Merkel (Germany), 110 articles (-21% on last week)
- François Hollande (France), 61 articles (+45% on last week)
- Mariano Rajoy (Spain), 29 articles (+123% on last week)
- Herman Van Rompuy (EU President), 26 articles (+63% on last week)
- Mario Draghi (ECB President), 18 articles (-10% on last week)
- Mario Monti (Italy), 15 articles (-12% on last week)
- Antonis Samaras (Greece), 11 articles (-63% on last week)
- José Manuel Barroso (President of Euro Commission), 7 articles (-22% on last week)
- Enda Kenny (Ireland), 6 articles (+50% on last week)
- Mark Rutte (The Netherlands), 3 articles (from 0 last week)
Who wrote a lot about… Angela Merkel
- Quentin Peel, Financial Times (£), 8 articles
- Ian Traynor, The Guardian, 7 articles
- Bruno Waterfield, The Daily Telegraph, 5 articles
- Matthew Sparkes, The Daily Telegraph, 3 articles
- Joshua Chaffin, Financial Times (£), 3 articles
Long form journalism
- 4,841 words, Thomas Quick: the Swedish serial killer who never was by Elizabeth Day The Observer
- 3,988 words, Meet the 14th Century African king who was richest man in the world of all time (adjusted for inflation!) by Olivia Fleming MailOnline
- 3,938 words, The great Stradivarius swindle by Alix Kirsta The Daily Telegraph
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