Eastleigh, The Oscars and riots in Bangladesh
for the week ending Sunday 3 March
- Lib Dem win in Eastleigh by-election and its implications covered most
- The Oscars 2013 covered a lot
- Fatal riots in Bangladesh covered little
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Covered Lots
- Lib Dems win Eastleigh by-election with UKIP beating the Conservatives to second, and much comment about implications, 413 articles
- The Oscars 2013, 230 articles
- Allegations of sexual harassment about Liberal Democrat Lord Rennard, 222 articles
Covered Little
- Death sentence for islamist leader sparks fatal riots in Bangladesh, 8 articles
- At least fourteen killed in violence between Malaysian security forces and armed Filipinos, 5 articles
- Thailand agrees to peace talks with militants, 3 articles
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- David Cameron, 406 articles (-8% on last week)
- Nick Clegg, 301 articles (+103% on last week)
- George Osborne, 261 articles (+4% on last week)
- Chris Huhne, 141 articles (+58% on last week)
- Nigel Farage, 122 articles (+510% on last week)
- Ed Miliband, 103 articles (+7% on last week)
- Tony Blair, 89 articles (+59% on last week)
- William Hague, 81 articles (+200%)
- Boris Johnson, 73 articles (+22% on last week)
- Michael Gove, 69 articles (+28% on last week)
Celebrity vs Serious: Oscars 2013 special
- Daniel Day-Lewis wins Best Actor in a Leading Role, 111 articles vs South African police officers arrested after video emerges of taxi driver being dragged down the street, 19 articles
- Jennifer Lawrence wins Best Actress in a Leading role, 104 articles vs Swiss voters back curbs on executive pay, 15 articles
- Ben Affleck, director of Argo – which won Best Picture, 61 articles vs William Hague dismisses Assad as “delusional”, 11 articles
Eurozone leaders (top ten by number of articles) and Beppe Grillo
- Mario Monti (Italy), 106 articles (+86% on last week)
- Pierre Luigi Bersani (Italy), 75 articles (+103% on last week)
- Mario Draghi (ECB President), 35 articles (+106% on last week)
- Angela Merkel (Germany), 33 articles (+27% on last week)
- François Hollande (France), 19 articles (-44% on last week)
- Herman Van Rompuy (EU President), 14 articles (+600% on last week)
- José Manuel Barroso (President of Euro Commission), 5 articles (0 last week)
- Mariano Rajoy (Spain), 3 articles (-73% on last week)
- Helle Thorning-Schmidt (Denmark), 2 articles (+100% on last week)
- Enda Kenny (Ireland), 1 articles (-90% on last week)
- Beppe Grillo (Italy), 135 articles (+181% on last week)
Who wrote a lot about… Eastleigh
- Peter Dominiczak, The Telegraph, 17 articles
- Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 12 articles
- James Kirkup, The Telegraph, 12 articles
- Steven Morris, The Guardian, 11 articles
- Rowena Mason, The Telegraph, 10 articles
Long form journalism
- 5,054 words, Jason Russell: Kony2012 and the fight for truth by Carole Cadwalladr, The Observer
- 3,756 words, John Lanchester rides the London Underground by John Lanchester, The Guardian
- 3,260 words, ‘I almost quit Olympics over rooftop missiles’: Danny Boyle’s outrage over decision to mount weapons on east London tower blocks and how he persuaded the Queen to join in the fun by Amy Raphael, Mail Online
