The use of synthetic nitrogen fertilisers in New Zealand agriculture, encompassing debates over nitrate leaching into waterways and drinking water supplies, associated health and environmental risks, and calls to reduce farming's dependency on synthetic inputs.
How the framings classify across 8 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.
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 necessary agricultural shift for cleaner water
Greenpeace says Govt has forsaken rural New Zealanders as new ECan maps reconfirm state of nitrate emergencyessential for productivity, scientifically proven benefits
The Country 13/07/26: Dr Jacqueline Rowarth talks to Jamie MackayLobby 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 necessary agricultural shift for cleaner water
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. 1 article from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.
Verbatim segments from politicians speaking on podcasts and radio shows about this topic. Sourced via the voice-reference library — each speaker has been confirmed manually from their voice clip. Click play to stream the original audio from the publisher, pre-seeked to the moment the quote starts.
So what happens when you pull out nitrogen is that you get a winding down of the production system, and eventually you either accept a very much lower productivity base …
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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