A man convicted of strangling his ex-partner and hiding her body in a wooden chest has requested a five-year stand-down from parole hearings, citing compassion for the victim's family and the emotional toll of repeated parole reviews.
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.
a critical benchmark for justice in violent deaths
Sensible Sentencing Trust Calls For Minimum Non Parole Sentences For Cowards Punchescritically insufficient to deter violence
Coward Punch Deaths Result In Less Than Four Years PrisonLobby groups, unions, think tanks and industry bodies whose own releases or whose people’s media appearances touched this topic over the last 12 months. Owned = their own press releases; earned = their people quoted across radio, press & commentary. A card carried in both — with the release coming first — is the agenda-setting signal. Co-occurrence isn’t proof a group drove the coverage.
a critical benchmark for justice in violent deaths
Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.
How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.
How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 4 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.
Social-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →
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