What the picker changes

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Topic

Open Mic Participation

58 items · 15 aliases · peaked week of 4 Oct 2026 · first seen 24 Jun 2026

Open mic participation refers to recurring community forum events in New Zealand where members of the public are invited to speak on political topics, often alongside political caption competitions.

The stories behind this signal

across press, releases & commentary · links open at the source

Stance breakdown Methodology →

How the framings classify across 58 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

86%

14%

Supportive 50 Neutral / explainer 8

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.

daily-blog Left

democratic participation in political discourse

Open Mic SUNDAY 25th OCTOBER + Political Caption Competition

24 Oct

the-standard Left

public commentary on daily affairs

Daily review 27/08/2026

27 Aug

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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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