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Leveson report, Mark Carney and Whooping cough
for the week ending Sunday 2 December
- Leveson report covered most
- New Bank of England governor covered lots
- Whooping cough covered little
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Covered Lots
- Lord Justice Leveson publishes his report recommending tougher self-regulation with statutory underpinning, 482 articles
- Mark Carney is announced as new governor of the Bank of England, 169 articles
- UN gives Palestine new diplomatic powers in ‘statehood recognition’ vote, 84 articles
Covered Little
- Whooping cough declared worst outbreak in 20 years as illness claims three more babies, 20 articles
- BP banned from new US contracts due to ‘lack of business integrity’, 8 articles
- Louis Walsh recieves £400,000 in damages from The Sun over false ‘groping’ story, 7 articles
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- David Cameron, 672 articles (0% on last week)
- George Osborne, 307 articles (+41% on last week)
- Vince Cable, 259 articles (+371% on last week)
- Ed Miliband, 238 articles (+61% on last week)
- Nick Clegg, 228 articles (+97% on last week)
- Boris Johnson, 141 articles (+11% on last week)
- Jeremy Hunt, 122 articles (+270% on last week)
- Michael Gove, 117 articles (+11% on last week)
- Nigel Farage, 87 articles (+81% on last week)
- Alex Salmond, 84 articles (+22% on last week)
Celebrity vs Serious
- X Factor contestant James Arthur flirts with women, 5 articles vs Botswana ban commercial wildlife hunting amid concerns about animal numbers, 1 article
- Lindsay Lohan arrested after row in New York nightclub, 15 articles vs Mexico’s new president Enrique Pena Nieto is sworn in, 5 articles
- X Factor‘s Rylan Clarke gets job presenting ITV’s Daybreak, 6 articles vs Record number of GCSE and A-level papers sent back for remarking as exam grades change for 45,000, 3 articles
Eurozone leaders (top ten by number of articles)
- Angela Merkel (Germany), 39 articles (-45% on last week)
- François Hollande (France), 33 articles (-49% on last week)
- Mario Draghi (ECB President), 28 articles (+600% on last week)
- Mario Monti (Italy), 21 articles (+163% on last week)
- Mariano Rajoy (Spain), 16 articles (-30% on last week)
- Herman Van Rompuy (EU President), 11 articles (-88% on last week)
- Antonis Samaras (Greece), 9 articles (-40% on last week)
- Jean-Claude Juncker (Luxembourg), 7 articles (-53% on last week)
- Mark Rutte (The Netherlands), 3 articles (-40% on last week)
- Enda Kenny (Ireland), 2 articles (-78% on last week)
Who wrote a lot about… Press regulation
- Roy Greenslade, The Guardian, 8 articles
- Oliver Wright, The Independent, 7 articles
- Rowena Mason, The Daily Telegraph, 6 articles
- George Parker, Financial Times (£), 5 articles
- Ben Fenton, Financial Times (£), 5 articles
Long form journalism
- 3,803 words, Windfarms: the bitter fight dividing the UK by Zoe Williams The Guardian
- 2,629 words, How a high-rise craze is ruining London’s skyline by Rowan Moore The Observer
- 2,622 words, Mean machine: the team behind the Bloodhound rocket car by Rory Ross The Daily Telegraph
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