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What the picker changes
  • Top topics digest — the cards score the selected period against the prior 4 weeks.
  • 12-week heatmap & outlet matrix — show the 12 weeks ending at the selected week (they slide back with the picker, they aren’t a fixed snapshot).
  • Per-topic volume / alias drift — same 12-week trailing window, anchored on the selected period.
  • Coverage gap quadrant — scores the selected period against the 12 weeks before it (not including it).
  • Anomaly cards — only show alerts the detector fired during the selected period. Quiet weeks legitimately show none.
What stays as-is
  • Outlet orientation strip / lean colours — context-only, drawn from the last 12 weeks of activity regardless.
  • Co-occurrence graph — recent-activity anchored, not picker-driven.
  • Source & topic profiles — all-time data for the topic; the picker doesn’t affect them.
Rolling 7 days is a sliding live window for “current vibes”; switch to Weekly to compare specific weeks side-by-side.
Weekly Rolling 7 days
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Week of 25 May 2026
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NZ news reporting

This week, in the press

Topics, framings, and outlet patterns extracted from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff — mapped onto the same canonical taxonomy as the discourse lens so the two corpora can be read against each other. Methodology →

Coverage through 6 Jun 2026 · topic analysis updated 3h ago

See how reporting tracks the conversation → Lead-lag, coverage gaps, and over/under-reported topics across the press × discourse corpora.

Anomalies this week Methodology →

Topics, MPs, or outlets whose article volume jumped sharply versus their prior 4-week mean. Detected automatically; mirrors the discourse-side anomaly cards so press-led step-changes surface in the same place.

mp
Dr Lawrence Xu-Nan
×5.3 4 this week vs 0.8 prior
30 May
mp
Hon Nicola Willis
×5.1 216 this week vs 42.2 prior
30 May
mp
Helen White
×12.0 9 this week vs 0.8 prior
30 May
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Top topics — Week of 25 May 2026 Methodology →

The canonical topics with the most reporting across the seven NZ outlets during Week of 25 May 2026. The trend figure compares the selected period to its prior 4-week mean.

Public Sector Cuts
36 articles +95%
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Emergency Response
27 articles +80%
tvnznzheraldstuff
Cost Of Living Pressures On Events
27 articles +163%
nzheraldtvnzodt
Bank Prudential Levy
19 articles new
tvnznzheraldodt
Public Finances And Surplus
15 articles new
rnznzheraldtvnz
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12-week press topic landscape Methodology →

Each cell = articles mentioning that topic in that week. Top 25 by recent volume across the seven outlets.

Outlet × topic sparklines Methodology →

Cross-tab of which outlets are reporting which topics, week by week. Rows are the 10 topics with the most coverage in the last four weeks; columns are the outlets reporting them most. Each tiny line shows 12 weekly counts; the column-header pill is each outlet’s editorial lean.

Topic ↓ / Outlet →
Stuff Centre-left
RNZ Centre
NZ Herald Centre-right
1News (TVNZ) Centre
Otago Daily Times Centre
The Spinoff Centre-left
Newsroom Centre
Public Sector Cuts 9 33 17 14 19 10 8
Cost Of Living 18 16 15 11 7 19 1
Emergency Response 23 21 21 11 11 · ·
Cost Of Living Pressures On Events 8 13 19 12 9 3 5
Hantavirus Outbreak On Cruise Ship 17 6 6 18 4 1 ·
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Outlets in the corpus

Article totals over the last 12 weeks. Lean assignments mirror the discourse-lens taxonomy and are tunable; see the methodology page.