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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.
Rolling 7 days is a sliding live window for “current vibes”; switch to Weekly to compare specific weeks side-by-side.
Week of 13 Jul 2026
This week
NZ news reporting

This week, in the press

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 21 Jul 2026 · topic analysis updated 1d ago

See how reporting tracks the conversation → Lead-lag, coverage gaps, and over/under-reported topics across the press × discourse corpora.

Anomalies this week Methodology →

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.

mp
Dr Parmjeet PARMAR
×3.2 4 this week vs 1.2 prior
18 Jul
mp
Andrew Hoggard
×4.6 32 this week vs 7.0 prior
18 Jul
topic
×24.0 12 this week vs 0.5 prior
18 Jul
topic
×24.0 6 this week vs 0.2 prior
18 Jul
topic
×16.0 4 this week vs 0.2 prior
18 Jul
topic
×20.0 5 this week vs 0.2 prior
18 Jul
topic
×16.0 4 this week vs 0.2 prior
18 Jul
topic
×5.3 4 this week vs 0.8 prior
18 Jul
topic
×14.0 7 this week vs 0.5 prior
18 Jul
topic
×9.3 7 this week vs 0.8 prior
18 Jul
topic
×8.0 4 this week vs 0.5 prior
18 Jul
topic
×14.0 7 this week vs 0.5 prior
18 Jul

Top topics — Week of 13 Jul 2026 Methodology →

The canonical topics with the most reporting across the seven NZ outlets during Week of 13 Jul 2026. The trend figure compares the selected period to its prior 4-week mean.

Sam Neill Passing
25 articles new

a cultural icon remembered for kindness and influence

Eden Park Unbeaten Record
19 articles +3700%

32-year unbeaten record under scrutiny ahead of match

Iran Military Strikes
18 articles +414%

escalation of targeted attacks across iranian provinces

Emergency Response
17 articles -17%

standard procedures applied during violent animal incident

Strait Of Hormuz Blockade
16 articles +191%

renewed naval conflict over critical shipping route

12-week press topic landscape Methodology →

Each cell = articles mentioning that topic in that week. Top 25 by recent volume across the seven outlets.

Outlet × topic sparklines Methodology →

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 →
RNZ Centre
Stuff Centre-left
1News (TVNZ) Centre
NZ Herald Centre-right
Newsroom Centre
The Spinoff Centre-left
NZ Herald — Crime Government / N-A
Emergency Response 47 59 41 50 30 · · 1
Cost Of Living Pressures On Events 31 26 20 34 20 13 3 ·
Emergency Road Closures 22 26 19 12 25 · · ·
Public Health And Safety Concerns 17 17 18 27 17 2 2 3
Police Accountability 22 20 11 10 13 1 · ·
Public Safety Warnings 17 22 18 7 12 · · ·
India-Nz Free Trade Agreement 20 7 6 4 5 2 3 ·
All Blacks Vs France Test Match 11 12 8 3 10 · 1 ·
Missile Testing In Pacific 13 5 9 3 4 1 1 ·
India-Nz Strategic Ties 11 · 9 7 4 3 1 ·

Outlets in the corpus

Article totals over the last 12 weeks. Lean assignments mirror the discourse-lens taxonomy and are tunable; see the methodology page.