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Pistorius bail, Moody’s downgrade and Child poverty
for the week ending Sunday 24 February
- Pistorius bail covered most
- Moody’s downgrade of the UK’s credit rating covered lots
- Child poverty covered little
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Covered Lots
- Oscar Pistorius is granted bail, 174 articles
- Moody’s downgrades the UK’s triple A credit rating, 143 articles
- The horse meat scandal continues, 136 articles
Covered Little
- 20% of British children are living in poverty, says campaign, 8 articles
- Fifty three are killed in a Syrian car bomb, 7 articles
- Muslim students take legal advice after City University shuts down Friday prayer meeting, 3 articles
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- David Cameron, 438 articles (+26% on last week)
- George Osborne, 251 articles (+54% on last week)
- Nick Clegg, 147 articles (+88% on last week)
- Ed Miliband, 96 articles (-23% on last week)
- Chris Huhne, 89 articles (-67% on last week)
- Vince Cable, 75 articles (+47% on last week)
- Boris Johnson, 59 articles (+7% on last week)
- Iain Duncan Smith, 57 articles (+50% on last week)
- Tony Blair, 56 articles (-2% on last week)
- Michael Gove, 54 articles (-18% on last week)
Celebrity vs Serious
- Cara Delevingne attends London Fashion Week, 37 articles vs Top maths students fall behind Asian peers as they get older, 11 articles
- Frank Ocean wins the Brit award for International Male Solo Artist, 17 articles vs Syrian opposition boycott talks in protest over ‘shameful’ international silence over Allepo, 2 articles
- Lincoln is nominated for twelve Oscars, 6 articles vs Scottish Government education agency SQA is criticised for contract with Bahrain during accusations of human rights abuses, 2 articles
Eurozone leaders (top ten by number of articles)
- Mario Monti (Italy), 57 articles (+119% on last week)
- François Hollande (France), 34 articles (+13% on last week)
- Angela Merkel (Germany), 26 articles (-4% on last week)
- Mario Draghi (ECB President), 17 articles (+475% on last week)
- Enda Kenny (Ireland), 10 articles (+100% on last week)
- Mariano Rajoy (Spain), 10 articles (+43% on last week)
- Antonis Samaras (Greece), 3 articles (+200% on last week)
- Pedro Passos Coelho (Portugal), 2 articles (from 0 last week)
- Dimitris Christofias (Cyprus), 2 articles (+100% on last week)
- Herman Van Rompuy (EU President), 2 articles (-33% on last week)
Who wrote a lot about… Oscar Pistorius
- Daniel Howden, The Independent, 10 articles
- Lucy Bannerman, The Times (£), 10 articles
- Jill Reilly, MailOnline, 7 articles
- Aislinn Laing, The Daily Telegraph, 7 articles
- Dan Newling, The Daily Telegraph, 6 articles
Long form journalism
- 2,872 words, After Fukushima: families on the edge of meltdown by Abigail Haworth The Observer
- 2,662 words, Up in smoke: How Britain’s rail network reached the end of the line by Peter Popham The Independent
- 2,597 words, Napster: the day the music was set free by Tom Lamont The Observer
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