Stalingrad anniversary, HS2 plans and Nuclear storage
for the week ending Sunday 3 February
- Anniversary of Stalingrad covered most
- HS2 route announced covered lots
- Cumbria rejects nuclear storage covered little
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Covered Lots
- The world marks the 70th anniversary of the German Army’s defeat in Stalingrad, 436 articles
- The second phase of the high-speed HS2 rail network route is announced, 158 articles
- Defence Secretary Philip Hammond reveals plans to send hundreds of non-combat troops to Mali, 113 articles
Covered Little
- Senior Met Police detective is jailed for 15 months over bid to sell hacking information, 15 articles
- Education Select Committee condemns government plans to abolish GCSEs, 7 articles
- Boris Johnson is criticised for private dinner with Rupert Murdoch, 5 articles
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- David Cameron, 581 articles (-23% on last week)
- George Osborne, 193 articles (-15% on last week)
- Nick Clegg, 122 articles (-27% on last week)
- Boris Johnson, 92 articles (-19% on last week)
- Ed Miliband, 86 articles (-34% on last week)
- Michael Gove, 84 articles (-2% on last week)
- Tony Blair, 80 articles (-2% on last week)
- Philip Hammond, 73 articles (+143% on last week)
- Alex Salmond, 70 articles (+17% on last week)
- Theresa May, 68 articles (+100% on last week)
Celebrity vs Serious
- One Direction’s Harry Styles celebrates his birthday with a stripper, 4 articles vs Burma holds its first ever international literary festival, the Irrawaddy Literary Festival, 4 articles
- Tamara Eccleston spends £30,000 on a nightclub champagne bill, 6 articles vs University applications fail to recover from tuition fee hike despite increase on last year, 3 articles
- Singer Beyoncé finally admits lip-synching at Obama’s inauguration as the controversy continues, 38 articles vs Ministers admit 100,000 more children will be living in poverty as a result of benefit cuts, 2 articles
Eurozone leaders (top ten by number of articles)
- François Hollande (France), 57 articles (+33% on last week)
- Angela Merkel (Germany), 29 articles (-73% on last week)
- Mariano Rajoy (Spain), 24 articles (+167% on last week)
- Mario Draghi (ECB President), 24 articles (-40% on last week)
- Mario Monti (Italy), 18 articles (-56% on last week)
- Mark Rutte (The Netherlands), 4 articles (-73% on last week)
- Herman Van Rompuy (EU President), 4 articles (-20% on last week)
- Enda Kenny (Ireland), 9 articles (-76% on last week)
- Helle Thorning-Schmidt (Denmark), 3 articles (-50% on last week)
- José Manuel Barroso (President of Euro Commission), 1 article (-50% on last week)
Who wrote a lot about… The football transfer deadline
- Charles Reynolds, The Independent, 8 articles
- Lee Power, Romford Recorder, 8 articles
- Neil Metcalfe, Sunderland Echo, 5 articles
- Alan Swann, Peterborough Today , 4 articles
- John Percy, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph, 4 articles
Long form journalism
- 2,995 words, Charlie Sheen: the road to rehab by Emma Brockes The Guardian
- 2,989 words, New faces of televangelism by James Gray New Humanist
- 2,781 words, A matter of love or death: With arranged unions still the norm in India, we meet the couples who fear for their lives because they married for love by Jane Mulkerrins MailOnline
