- Jeremy Hunt's office's email exchange with News Corporation dominated the news
- Rupert Murdoch at the Leveson Inquiry, UK back in recession, and French elections were covered lots
- PM Mark Rutte (Netherlands) resigns, PM Awn Khasawneh (Jordan) resigns and president Gilani (Pakistan) guilty of contempt covered little
Covered Lots
- Jeremy Hunt faced calls for his resignation in response to correspondence between his office and News Corp regarding the BSkyB bid, 409 articles, released after James Murdoch gave evidence at the Leveson Inquiry, 255 articles
- Rupert Murdoch also gave evidence at the Leveson Inquiry, admitting there was a 'cover-up' of practices at the News of the World, but it was kept from him, 336 articles
- The UK was officially declared to be in a double-dip recession, 332 articles
- François Hollande, was predicted to win forthcoming French elections, after winning the first round, 124 articles
Covered Little
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
- David Cameron, 639 articles (+23% on last week)
- Jeremy Hunt, 409 articles (+1263% on last week)
- George Osborne, 332 articles (+31% on last week)
- Ed Miliband, 205 articles (+37% on last week)
- Vince Cable, 171 articles (+375% on last week)
- Tony Blair, 168 articles (+39% on last week)
- Gordon Brown,151 articles (+152% on last week)
- Boris Johnson, 151 articles (+15% on last week)
- Nick Clegg, 143 articles (+16% on last week)
- Theresa May, 122 articles (-26% on last week)
Celebrity vs Serious
- Jessie J, a judge on the BBC's 'The Voice' and also rich, 64 articles vs. Charles Taylor is convicted of aiding war crimes in Liberia at the Hague, 47 articles
- Kim Kardashian has an evening with Barack Obama, 39 articles vs. escalation of hostilities in Sudan that bring the country to brink of war, 26 articles
- Katie Price is to marry for a third time, 32 articles vs. Barclays bank posts a £475 million pre-tax loss in the first three months of 2012, compared to the same period last year when they had a £1.7 billion profit, 21 articles
- Gary Neville enjoys commentating on the Chelsea Barcelona game, 31 articles vs. the Legal Aid bill finally heads for royal assent after being defeated 14 times in the House of Lords, 4 articles
Political zeitgeist
Eurozone leaders (top ten by number of articles)
- Nicolas Sarkozy (France), 163 articles (+23% on last week)
- Angela Merkel (Germany), 68 articles (+40% on last week)
- Mark Rutte (The Netherlands), 46 articles (+411% on last week)
- Mario Monti (Italy), 28 articles (no change on last week)
- Mariano Rajoy (Spain), 21 articles (-52% on last week)
- Enda Kenny (Ireland), 10 articles (+25% on last week)
- Lucas Papademos (Greece), 6 articles (from 1 last week)
- Helle Thorning-Schmidt (Denmark), 2 articles (from 1 last week)
- Iveta Radicova (Slovakia), 1 article (from 0 last week)
- Jean-Claude Juncker (Luxembourg), 1 article (-67% on last week)
No other Eurozone leaders were mentioned in UK press coverage.
Who wrote a lot about...the French elections
- Henry Samuel, Daily/Sunday Telegraph, 7 articles
- Louise Armitstead, Daily/Sunday Telegraph, 5 articles
- Angelique Chrisafis, The Guardian, 5 articles
- Hugh Carnegy, The Financial Times, 4 articles
- Ian Traynor, The Guardian, 3 articles
Long form journalism
- 4,512 words, Andy McNab (Financial Times), A personal dispatch from Afghanistan
- 4,155 words, John Arlidge (The Times), Show us the money, comrade (£)
- 3,692 words, Peter Bergen (Sunday Times), We’ve found Bin Laden — now how are we going to kill him? (£)
Journalists who have updated their profile
Tony Barrell is a freelance journalist who has written primarily for the Times and Sunday Times since 1992. Since graduating from Crawley College in 1981 he has held several posts, including being the chief sub-editor of Architects’ Journal, Assistant editor of Traditional Homes magazine and being the chief sub-editor for the Sunday Times magazine. He has also co-authored two books, ‘The Miracle: One Musician's Amazing Struggle For Survival’ (2012), and ‘Eyes Wide Open: Photography by the Winners of the Ian Parry Scholarship’(2004). He has won the Eden Chippert award for humorous journalism (2011).
Grant Collinson is a reporter for VRL Financial News. He previously studied at the University of Glasgow (2004-2008), where he read English Literature and Glasgow Caledonian University (2010), where he completed his Masters in Multimedia Journalism. After university he went to the Herald and Times Group to be a trainee reporter. Follow him on Twitter
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