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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

Ukraine Russian Drone Attacks

35 items · 27 aliases · peaked week of 3 May 2026 · first seen 2 May 2026

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy seeks details of a proposed short-term ceasefire between Russia and the U.S., while reporting on continued Russian drone attacks in Ukraine and Ukraine's retaliatory strikes inside Russia, including over grain theft allegations involving an Israeli-Å

Stance breakdown Methodology →

How the framings classify across 3 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

33%
67%
Critical 1 Neutral / explainer 2

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. 28 articles 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 28 articles
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Sample framings

Up to 12 framings spread across orientations. Each framing is a short phrase the topic extractor generated to characterise the piece's stance — not a quote from the source. Click through to read the original.

conversation-nz Centre-left

a turning point in the war's dynamics

Russia doesn’t have much to celebrate on Victory Day, as Ukraine brings the war home to Putin
7 May
daily-blog Left

a tactical shift in modern combat

BEN MORGAN – A tactical revolution in Ukraine, but what next?
5 May
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