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Savile investigation, Coalition review and MP pay rise
for the week ending Sunday 13 January
- Joint Savile abuse report covered most
- Coalition mid-term review covered lots
- MPs call for 32% pay rise covered little
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Covered Lots
- A joint report is published into the allegations of sexual abuse against Jimmy Savile, 203 articles
- Much disputed 1% cap on working-age benefits wins vote by MPs, 158 articles
- The coalition hold their mid-term review declaring their partnership is “steadfast and united”, 105 articles
Covered Little
- Mixed reaction as MPs call for a 32% pay rise, 26 articles
- Somali captors kill French spy hostage and two commandos during failed rescue mission, 19 articles
- Health watchdog Care Quality Commission finds 17 hospitals have ‘unsafe staffing levels’, 3 articles
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- David Cameron, 489 articles (+41% on last week)
- Nick Clegg, 199 articles (+140% on last week)
- George Osborne, 147 articles (+11% on last week)
- Ed Miliband, 119 articles (+78% on last week)
- Iain Duncan Smith, 83 articles (+66% on last week)
- Tony Blair, 65 articles (+35% on last week)
- Boris Johnson, 60 articles (+15% on last week)
- Michael Gove, 57 articles (+68% on last week)
- Gordon Brown, 52 articles (+41% on last week)
- Ed Balls, 50 articles (-17% on last week)
Celebrity vs Serious
- David Bowie makes surprise comeback track, 105 articles vs Changes to education funding may lead to fewer A-level sciences, 1 article
- Harry Styles and Taylor Swift split up, 27 articles vs Rising mercury emissions are increasing risk to humans, UN says, 2 articles
- Former Coronation Street star Sam Robertson is evicted from Celebrity Big Brother, 5 articles vs Zambia bans game hunting in attempt to aid tourism industry, 3 articles
Eurozone leaders (top ten by number of articles)
- François Hollande (France), 54 articles (+80% on last week)
- Angela Merkel (Germany), 44 articles (+29% on last week)
- Mario Draghi (ECB President), 17 articles (+42%% on last week)
- Herman Van Rompuy (EU President), 12 articles (+50% on last week)
- Mario Monti (Italy), 12 articles (-8% on last week)
- Enda Kenny (Ireland), 7 articles (+17% on last week)
- José Manuel Barroso (President of Euro Commission), 7 articles (from 0 last week)
- Elio di Rupo (Belgium), 6 articles (from 0 last week)
- Mariano Rajoy (Spain), 4 articles (-20% on last week)
- Antonis Samaras (Greece), 4 articles (+33% on last week)
Who wrote a lot about… Cameron’s stance on Europe
- Nicholas Watt, The Guardian, 7 articles
- George Parker, Financial Times (£), 6 articles
- Rowena Mason, The Daily Telegraph, 5 articles
- James Kirkup, The Daily Telegraph , 5 articles
- Bruno Waterfield, The Daily Telegraph, 5 articles
Long form journalism
- 3,687 words, We don’t want our burqas back: women in Afghanistan on the Taliban’s return by Tracy McVeigh The Observer
- 3,164 words, The terrifying rise of cyber crime: Your computer is currently being targeted by criminal gangs looking to harvest your personal details and steal your money by Rob Waugh MailOnline
- 2,745 words, Work, rest and pray by Antonia MacAro and Julian Baggini Financial Times
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