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Obama, Dorries and Entwistle
for the week ending Sunday 11 November
- Obama wins the US election covered most
- Tory MP in I’m A Celebrity… and BBC crises covered lots
- Debate surrounding end-of-life care covered little
Covered Lots
- Democrat candidate and current US president Barack Obama wins the US presidential election, 460 articles
- Controversial Tory MP Nadine Dorries appears on reality TV show I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, 170 articles
- BBC Director General George Entwistle resigns after struggling to manage a new BBC news crisis, 165 articles
Covered Little
- Debate surrounding Liverpool Care Pathway and end-of-life care, 18 articles
- Thousands sign ‘Malala’ petition for girls’ education, 14 articles
- International development secretary Justine Greening says UK will end financial aid to India by 2015, 14 articles
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- David Cameron, 682 articles (+50% on last week)
- Ed Miliband, 341 articles (+154% on last week)
- Nadine Dorries, 170 articles (+1317% on last week)
- George Osborne, 163 articles (+14% on last week)
- Theresa May, 115 articles (+400% on last week)
- Nick Clegg, 108 articles (-13% on last week)
- Boris Johnson, 102 articles (+5% on last week)
- Alex Salmond, 74 articles (+21% on last week)
- Tony Blair, 69 articles (-9% on last week)
- William Hague, 61 articles (+39% on last week)
Celebrity vs Serious
- Celebrities shower in bikinis on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, 10 articles vs Ex-MP Margaret Moran forged expenses worth £53,000, court hears, 9 articles
- Kristen Stewart gets questioned over her relationship with Robert Pattinson, 3 articles vs Fathers gain legal rights to see children after divorce, 3 articles
- Kim Kardashian is in London, 10 articles vs climate change threatens extinction of coffee crops, 7 articles
Eurozone leaders (top ten by number of articles)
- Angela Merkel (Germany), 84 articles (+127% on last week)
- François Hollande (France), 38 articles (+65% on last week)
- Antonis Samaras (Greece), 35 articles (+84% on last week)
- Mario Draghi (ECB President), 25 articles (+67% on last week)
- Enda Kenny (Ireland), 15 articles (+88% on last week)
- Mariano Rajoy (Spain), 9 articles (-25% on last week)
- Herman Van Rompuy (EU President), 9 articles (+50% on last week)
- Mario Monti (Italy), 5 articles (-55% on last week)
- José Manuel Barroso (President of Euro Commission), 4 articles (+100% on last week)
- Mark Rutte (The Netherlands), 3 articles (-25% on last week)
Who wrote a lot about… The BBC
- John Plunkett, The Guardian, 15 articles
- Josh Halliday, The Guardian, 9 articles
- Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 8 articles
- Dan Sabbagh, The Guardian, 7 articles
- Hannah Kuchler, Financial Times (£), 6 articles
Long form journalism
- 6,866 words, Inside post-Castro Cuba: Can this complex country can ever be truly free? by John Jeremiah Sullivan The Independent
- 5,546 words, China’s digital revolution by Mick Brown The Daily Telegraph
- 4,685 words, Obama’s victory starts with strong ground game, ends with perfect storm by Philip Rucker and Scott Wilson The Independent
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