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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.
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Topic

Chatham Islands Wildlife Incident

3 items · 2 aliases · peaked week of 16 Aug 2026 · first seen 18 Aug 2026

a reported animal-related event occurring on the Chatham Islands

The stories behind this signal

across press, releases & commentary · links open at the source
Govt release \\ \\ **$1.7 million for Chatham Islands from DOC Community Fund**\\ \\ 18 August, 2026\\ \\ Tama Potaka National Party · 18 AugRead ↗ Govt release $1.7 million for Chatham Islands from DOC Community Fund Beehive (Govt) · 17 AugRead ↗ News MPI investigating after quad bikes used to hunt down and kill bull on Chatham Islands NZ Herald · 16 AugRead ↗

Sample framings

Up to 12 framings across outlets and orientations — each a short phrase the extractor generated to characterise the piece's editorial angle (not a quote). Filter by lean to see how each bloc is spinning the story; click through to read the original.

national-party Centre-right

ecosystem protection through targeted predator reduction

\\ \\ **$1.7 million for Chatham Islands from DOC Community Fund**\\ \\ 18 August, 2026\\ \\ Tama Potaka
18 Aug
beehive Government / N-A

ecosystem protection through targeted species management

$1.7 million for Chatham Islands from DOC Community Fund
17 Aug

Volume by source orientation Methodology →

Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.

Alias drift

How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.

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In the press Methodology →

How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 1 article from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.

12-week press volume 1 article

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