Topics, framings, and outlet patterns extracted from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff — mapped onto the same canonical taxonomy as the discourse lens so the two corpora can be read against each other. Methodology →
Coverage through 9 Sep 2026 · topic analysis updated 19h ago
See how reporting tracks the conversation → Lead-lag, coverage gaps, and over/under-reported topics across the press × discourse corpora.
Topics, MPs, or outlets whose article volume jumped sharply versus their prior 4-week mean. Detected automatically; mirrors the discourse-side anomaly cards so press-led step-changes surface in the same place.
The canonical topics with the most reporting across the seven NZ outlets during Week of 31 Aug 2026. The trend figure compares the selected period to its prior 4-week mean.
historical foundation of pacific cooperation through māori-influenced leadership
devastating glacial-triggered flood on the nepal-china border
Each cell = articles mentioning that topic in that week. Top 25 by recent volume across the seven outlets.
Cross-tab of which outlets are reporting which topics, week by week. Rows are the 10 topics with the most coverage in the last four weeks; columns are the outlets reporting them most. Each tiny line shows 12 weekly counts; the column-header pill is each outlet’s editorial lean.
| Topic ↓ / Outlet → |
Stuff
Centre-left
|
1News (TVNZ)
Centre
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RNZ
Centre
|
NZ Herald
Centre-right
|
The Spinoff
Centre-left
|
Newsroom
Centre
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emergency Road Closures | 28 | 33 | 28 | 18 | · | · |
| Luxon Leadership Crisis | 12 | 21 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 7 |
| Lotto Powerball Draw | 28 | 9 | · | 26 | · | · |
| U16 Social Media Ban | 17 | 8 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 4 |
| Springboks Vs All Blacks Fixtures | 26 | 8 | 7 | 1 | · | · |
| Missing New Zealanders In Nepal | 5 | 7 | 19 | 5 | · | 1 |
| Flash Floods In Nepal | 9 | 10 | 12 | 3 | · | 1 |
| National Party Leadership Turmoil | 3 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 3 |
| Parliamentary Caucus Meeting | 3 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 1 |
| Chris Penk Resignation | 4 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
Article totals over the last 12 weeks. Lean assignments mirror the discourse-lens taxonomy and are tunable; see the methodology page.
