Lord McAlpine, Gaza violence and Congo rebels
for the week ending Sunday 18 November
- Lord McAlpine’s legal claims covered most
- Gaza violence covered lots
- DR Congo rebel attack case covered little
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Covered Lots
- Lord McAlpine claims after he is wrongly named as a paedophile, 247 articles
- Fears of a new war in Gaza after violence erupts leaving many dead, 218 articles
- Police and Crime Commissioner elections take place with less than 15% turnout, 138 articles
Covered Little
- DR Congo vows to defend Goma city as UN condemn rebel attack, 6 articles
- Undercover footage reveals Tory MP’s links to independent Corby candidate, 4 articles
- Ikea say they ‘regret’ the use of forced prison labour in communist East Germany 30 years ago, 3 articles
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- David Cameron, 519 articles (-24% on last week)
- George Osborne, 197 articles (+21% on last week)
- Nick Clegg, 109 articles (+1% on last week)
- Nadine Dorries, 109 articles (-36% on last week)
- Theresa May, 105 articles (-9% on last week)
- Ed Miliband, 96 articles (-72% on last week)
- William Hague, 95 articles (+56% on last week)
- Tony Blair, 89 articles (+29% on last week)
- Boris Johnson, 83 articles (-19% on last week)
- Michael Gove, 82 articles (+71% on last week)
Celebrity vs Serious: I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here Special
- Helen Flanagan in a bikini, 27 articles vs Comet administrators to close 41 stores, with 1000 jobs under threat, 5 articles
- Nadine Dorries eats insects in the bushtucker trial, 29 articles vs Oil giant BP pays $4.5bn settlement to avoid court after 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, 21 articles
- Boxer David Haye has a shower, 10 articles vs Charity donations fall by 20% with £1.7bn less being given, says survey, 5 articles
Eurozone leaders (top ten by number of articles)
- Angela Merkel (Germany), 60 articles (-29% on last week)
- François Hollande (France), 38 articles (+0% on last week)
- Enda Kenny (Ireland), 25 articles (+67% on last week)
- Mario Monti (Italy), 23 articles (+360% on last week)
- Jean-Claude Juncker (Luxembourg), 21 articles (+600% on last week)
- Herman Van Rompuy (EU President), 16 articles (+78% on last week)
- Mario Draghi (ECB President), 13 articles (-48% on last week)
- Antonis Samaras (Greece), 12 articles (-66% on last week)
- Mark Rutte (The Netherlands), 12 articles (+300% on last week)
- Pedro Passos Coelho (Portugal), 12 articles (from 0 last week)
Who wrote a lot about… Xi Jinping
- Leo Lewis, The Times (£), 6 articles
- Jamil Anderlini, Financial Times (£), 5 articles
- Tania Branigan, The Guardian, 5 articles
- Malcolm Moore, The Daily Telegraph, 5 articles
- Leslie Hook, Financial Times (£), 4 articles
Long form journalism
- 4,755 words, China’s love affair with England by Mick Brown The Daily Telegraph
- 4,488 words, Hit me one more time: Ricky Hatton reveals why he is entering the ring once again by Robert Chalmers The Independent
- 3,484 words, The man who would be PM by Victor Mallet Financial Times (£)