The investigation into ‘How much local council coverage is there in your local newspaper?‘ has had its first results. OrangeBlossomer has blogged about her four-week survey of the weekly Sussex Express and daily Argus in Brighton:

The two papers returned very similar results. In four weeks,Sussex Express produced an average of 4.15% of council news in its news pages and The Argus, an average of 4.46% over five days.