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Monkey

Blazing keyboards: 2010's most prolific hacks revealed

Mark Sweney
MediaGuardian's Mark Sweney ... no shame in second place. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi for the Guardian

Drum roll, pur-lease. It's the list you've all been waiting for: The top 10 most prolific UK journalists of 2010, according to Journalisted. Hats off to Derek McGovern, the Daily Mirror's indefatigable sports writer, who claimed victory with a keyboard-melting 1,084 articles. Monkey's not one to bang its own drum, but ... what the hey, it's Christmas. Half the top 10 were from Guardian Towers, with MediaGuardian.co.uk blogger Roy Greenslade in fourth, and reporter Mark Sweney second, just two articles away from taking the crown. Sweney, our man with the fingers of steel, logged off two weeks ago to go on a well-deserved sabbatical – Monkey can't help thinking if he'd stayed he might have been in it to win it.

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