• Few news outlets could resist covering the release of Tony Blair’s memoirs, and most also reported on the Pakistan cricket betting scandal, the Labour leadership battle and William Hague’s statement
• By contrast, certain news outlets resisted covering the new phone hacking allegations, and the official end of US combat operations in Iraq

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Covered lots

• Tony Blair, whose autobiography – ‘A Journey’ was published last week, 500 articles
• The ICC (International Cricket Council), which began an inquiry into match fixing following an investigation by the News of the World, 283 articles
• The Miliband brothers, locked in political combat for the leadership of the Labour party, 254 articles (combined)
• William Hague, who made a statement denying he was having a homosexual affair with one of his advisers, 154 articles

Covered little

• New claims about phone hacking at the News of the World, 65 articles, 68% of which were in one of four outlets (The Guardian, The BBC, The Independent and the Financial Times). Only 2 were published by news outlets owned by News International
• The official end of Operation Iraqi Freedom, as announced by President Barack Obama last week, 16 articles
• Deportation of Iraqi refugees, 15 of whom were sent back at the end of last week, and 50 more who were due to be flown out, 2 articles

Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)

• Tony Blair: 500 articles (+282% on previous week)
• Gordon Brown: 387 articles (+231% on previous week)
• David Cameron: 294 articles (+1% on previous week)
• David Miliband: 177 articles (+50% on previous week)
• Ed Balls: 173 articles (+57% on previous week)
• Ed Miliband: 158 articles (+68% on previous week)
• William Hague: 154 articles (+711% on previous week)
• Nick Clegg: 138 articles (-39% on previous week)
• George Osborne: 95 articles (-16% on previous week)
• Andy Burnham: 87 articles (+13% on previous week)

Celebrity vs serious

• Simon Cowell, leading another series of the X-Factor, mentioned in 87 articles, vs. 5 articles referring to food riots in Mozambique that left 7 people dead and at least 280 injured
• Ultimate Big Brother, currently running on Channel 4, 73 articles vs. 15 articles mentioning the suicide bomb in Quetta, Pakistan, that killed 65 people
• Adrian Chiles, who prepared to start hosting the breakfast show on ITV, 51 articles vs. 7 articles on the heavy rains devastating Guatemala

Who wrote a lot about... the ‘ICC' cricket fixing inquiry

David Hopps – 14 articles (The Guardian/Observer), Owen Gibson – 11 articles (The Guardian), Roger Blitz – 7 articles (Financial Times), Stephen Brenkley – 6 articles (The Independent), Nick Hoult – 6 articles (The Daily Telegraph), Ashling O’Connor – 5 articles (Times/Sunday Times), David Williams – 5 articles (MailOnline)

Long form journalism

• 4,571 words: 'Over the moon: Adam Phillips on the happiness myth', Adam Phillips, The Guardian, 4th September 2010
• 3,877 words: ‘Labour leadership: the contenders’, John Harris, The Guardian, 4th September 2010
• 3,722 words: ‘Balmoral, booze, and the rest of Blair's book digested’, Andy McSmith, The Independent, 2nd September 2010

Journalists who have updated their profile

Julia Buckley is currently editor at www.therunningbug.co.uk and freelances for various UK publications including: The Times, Walk Magazine, Cosmopolitan, The Independent, Closer, SportSister, UKTV, and Trail Running. She has experience at the BBC and Running Free Magazine. You can follow Julia Buckley on twitter @julia_b

Paul Lamarra is a freelance journalist who has done work for France magazine, The Sunday Times, Australian Cyclist, Adventure Cyclist, Scots magazine, BBC radio, the Herald, the Sun, and TES. He was a reporter at the Sunday Times from 2004-05. He was educated at Napier University (PgDIP, Journalism) and Glasgow University (BSc(Hons), Mathematics). He wrote ‘The Ultimate Scottish Cycling book’ in 2003 (Mainstream). You can follow Paul Lamarra on twitter @Paullamarra

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