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Hurricane Sandy, US elections and Police Commissioners
for the week ending Sunday 4 November
- Hurricane Sandy hits US covered most
- Run-up to the US election covered lots
- Police and Crime Commissioner elections covered little
Covered Lots
- Hurricane Sandy hits east coast of America, leaving tens of people dead, 780 articles
- Obama and Romney fight for votes in the run-up to the US presidential election, 348 articles
- The government is defeated by Labour and Tory rebels in vote for EU spending cuts, 135 articles
Covered Little
- Upcoming Police and Crime Commissioner elections, 13 articles
- Fresh embarrassment for Number 10 as texts between David Cameron and Rebekha Brooks are published, 12 articles
- Office of former PM Tony Blair agrees to pay interns in the face of potential investigation, 2 articles
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- David Cameron, 456 articles (-14% on last week)
- George Osborne, 143 articles (-30% on last week)
- Ed Miliband, 134 articles (+35% on last week)
- Nick Clegg, 124 articles (+107% on last week)
- Boris Johnson, 97 articles (+54% on last week)
- Tony Blair, 76 articles (+15% on last week)
- Ed Davey, 64 articles (+3100% on last week)
- Gordon Brown, 62 articles (+13% on last week)
- Alex Salmond, 61 articles (-50% on last week)
- Philip Hammond, 56 articles (+180% on last week)
Celebrity vs Serious
- Kim Kardashian, 31 articles vs Labour MP Denis MacShane resigns over expenses claims, 29 articles
- Singer Rihanna, 34 articles vs Equal rights minister cut aide’s sick pay to ‘save taxpayer’s money’, 1 article
- Singer Cheryl Cole, 30 articles vs Miners’ industrial action in South Africa finally comes to an end leaving 46 people dead and rocking ANC, 8 articles
Eurozone leaders (top ten by number of articles)
- Angela Merkel (Germany), 37 articles (-35% on last week)
- François Hollande (France), 23 articles (-15% on last week)
- Antonis Samaras (Greece), 19 articles (+111% on last week)
- Mario Draghi (ECB President), 15 articles (-12% on last week)
- Mariano Rajoy (Spain), 12 articles (-37% on last week)
- Mario Monti (Italy), 11 articles (+83% on last week)
- Enda Kenny (Ireland), 8 articles (0% on last week)
- Herman Van Rompuy (EU President), 6 articles (-79% on last week)
- Pedro Passos Coelho (Portugal), 4 articles (+300% on last week)
- Mark Rutte (The Netherlands), 4 articles (from 0 last week)
Who wrote a lot about… Ash trees
- Steven Swinford, The Daily Telegraph, 6 articles
- John Vidal, The Guardian, 5 articles
- Louise Gray, The Daily Telegraph, 5 articles
- Robert Fisk, The Independent, 3 articles
- Daniel Martin, MailOnline, 3 articles
Long form journalism
- 5,821 words, Will China’s new middle class save it from disaster? by Mick Brown The Daily Telegraph
- 4,874 words, Bradley Wiggins: ‘Kids from Kilburn aren’t supposed to win the Tour’ by Simon Hattenstone The Guardian
- 3,925 words, Max Keiser: ‘Barack Obama is clueless. Mitt Romney will bankrupt the country’ by Robert Chalmers The Independent
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