Media use figures

A few people have asked for some updated figures on coverage of the Freedom of Information Act so far by UK National newspapers. Figures are produced from analysis of the newspapers using a sepcialist full text database. The search was for articles that contained the phrase "freedom of information act"

The number of FOI stories in UK Press mentioning the phrase "Freedom of Information Act" by month:

-January 2005: 175
-February 2005: 264
-March 2005: 198
-April 2005: 90
-May 2005: 90
-June 2005: 92
-July 2005: 78
-August 2005: 82
-September 2005: 72
-October 2005: 91

By newspaper:

-Daily Mail: 120
-Daily Star: 13
-Daily Telegraph: 83
-Express: 83
-FT: 80
-Guardian: 174
-Independent: 129
-Independent on Sunday: 34
-Mail on Sunday: 39
-Mirror: 66
-News of the World: 28
-Observer: 35
-People: 7
-The Sun: 32
-Sunday Express: 27
-Sunday Mirror : 13
-Sunday Telegraph: 26
-Sunday Times: 117
-The Times: 149
(01/01/05 to 31/10/05)