EU Budget, Gaza ceasefire and Catalonia independence
for the week ending Sunday 25 November
- EU budget talks covered most
- Gaza ceasefire covered lots
- Catalonia independence covered little
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Covered Lots
- EU nations begin budget talks but no deal is reached, 351 articles
- Gaza reaches ceasefire agreement in Cairo, 200 articles
- The Church of England General Synod votes against women bishops , 113 articles
Covered Little
- Catalonia votes on Spain independence, 27 articles
- Flu vaccine is ‘over-hyped’, scientists tell government, 7 articles
- Only 3% of sacked Remploy workers have found new jobs, despite minister promises to help them back into work, 1 article
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- David Cameron, 672 articles (+29% on last week)
- George Osborne, 217 articles (+10% on last week)
- Ed Miliband, 148 articles (+54% on last week)
- Boris Johnson, 127 articles (53% on last week)
- Tony Blair, 120 articles (+35% on last week)
- Nick Clegg, 116 articles (+6% on last week)
- Nadine Dorries, 111 articles (+2% on last week)
- Michael Gove, 105 articles (+28% on last week)
- William Hague, 91 articles (-4% on last week)
- Ed Davey, 74 articles (+21% on last week)
Celebrity vs Serious
- Singer Cheryl Cole wears a tight leather dress , 6 articles vs Editor of the Irish Daily Star resigns over Kate Middleton topless photos, 4 articles
- Victoria Pendleton is voted off Strictly Come Dancing, 8 articles vs Chinese blogger faces five years in jail for ‘spreading terrorist information’ 3 articles
- Ella Henderson gets voted off X Factor, 17 articles vs EU to close loophole on shark finning, 3 articles
Eurozone leaders (top ten by number of articles)
- Herman Van Rompuy (EU President), 92 articles (+475% on last week)
- Angela Merkel (Germany), 71 articles (+18% on last week)
- François Hollande (France), 65 articles (+71% on last week)
- Mariano Rajoy (Spain), 23 articles (+130% on last week)
- Antonis Samaras (Greece), 15 articles (+25% on last week)
- Jean-Claude Juncker (Luxembourg), 15 articles (-29% on last week)
- José Manuel Barroso (President of Euro Commission), 12 articles (+200% on last week)
- Enda Kenny (Ireland), 9 articles (-64% on last week)
- Mario Monti (Italy), 8 articles (-65% on last week)
- Mark Rutte (The Netherlands), 5 articles (-58% on last week)
Who wrote a lot about… Roberto Di Matteo
- Neil Ashton, MailOnline, 11 articles
- Paul Kelso, The Daily Telegraph, 11 articles
- Dominic Fifield, The Guardian, 10 articles
- Jason Burt, The Daily Telegraph, 8 articles
- Mark Irwin, The Sun, 7 articles
Long form journalism
- 4,090 words, New model army: Sandhurst’s officers of the future by Rob Blackhurst The Daily Telegraph
- 4,080 words, The faces of neo-Nazism by Quentin Peel Financial Times
- 4,015 words, Death metal: tin mining in Indonesia by Kate Hodal The Guardian