Cameron’s speech, Andy Murray and Holocaust row
for the week ending Sunday 27 January
- Cameron’s Europe speech covered most
- Andy Murray in the Australian Open covered lots
- MP in Holocaust jibe row covered little
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Covered Lots
- David Cameron delivers long awaited speech on the future of the UK’s role in the EU, 371 articles
- Andy Murray comes second in the Australian Open after losing to Novak Djokovic in the final, 176 articles
- Prince Harry finishes his four-month tour of Afghanistan, 111 articles
Covered Little
- Lib Dem MP David Ward in row over Holocaust jibe at Israel, 20 articles
- Nearly 200 secondary schools teaching 167,000 pupils fail to hit GCSE targets, 11 articles
- Mozambique floods displace 70,000 people, the UN says, 1 article
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- David Cameron, 759 articles (+30% on last week)
- George Osborne, 228 articles (+124% on last week)
- Nick Clegg, 167 articles (+44% on last week)
- Ed Miliband, 131 articles (+14% on last week)
- Boris Johnson, 114 articles (+111% on last week)
- Michael Gove, 86 articles (+79% on last week)
- Tony Blair, 82 articles (+19% on last week)
- William Hague, 65 articles (-40% on last week)
- Alex Salmond, 60 articles (-38% on last week)
- Gordon Brown, 53 articles(+33% on last week)
Celebrity vs Serious
- The Celebrity Big Brother final, 41 articles vs Addiction rockets as online gambling passes £2bn, 4 articles
- Rumours of Beyoncé lip-synching at Obama’s inauguration, 17 articles vs Antibiotic resistance now poses ‘apocalyptic’ threat, says top UK expert, 7 articles
- David Beckham’s son Brooklyn has a trial at Chelsea, 14 articles vs Scientists successfully store computer files on DNA in new breakthrough, 6 articles
Eurozone leaders (top ten by number of articles)
- Angela Merkel (Germany), 108 articles (+177% on last week)
- François Hollande (France), 43 articles (-49% on last week)
- Mario Monti (Italy), 41 articles (+413% on last week)
- Mario Draghi (ECB President), 40 articles (+413% on last week)
- Enda Kenny (Ireland), 17 articles (+183% on last week)
- Mark Rutte (The Netherlands), 15 articles (+36% on last week)
- Antonis Samaras (Greece), 11 articles (+175% on last week)
- Mariano Rajoy (Spain), 9 articles (+50% on last week)
- Jean-Claude Juncker (Luxembourg), 7 articles (+75% on last week)
- Helle Thorning-Schmidt (Denmark), 6 articles (from 0 last week)
Who wrote a lot about… Benjamin Netanyahu
- Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian, 9 articles
- Alistair Dawber, The Independent, 8 articles
- John Reed, Financial Times (£), 5 articles
- Sheera Frenkel, The Times (£), 3 articles
- Hugh Tomlinson, The Times (£), 2 articles
Long form journalism
- 3,326 words, Regional theatre roundtable: When shall we three meet again? by Fiona Mountford The Independent
- 3,315 words, Algiers: a city where France is the promised land – and still the enemy by Andrew Hussey The Observer
- 2,680 words, The Hitler home movies: how Eva Braun documented the dictator’s private life by Robert McCrum and Taylor Downing The Observer