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 25 Oct 2026 · topic analysis updated 4h 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 19 Oct 2026. The trend figure compares the selected period to its prior 4-week mean.
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
|
RNZ
Centre
|
NZ Herald
Centre-right
|
Otago Daily Times
Centre
|
NZ Herald — Crime
Government / N-A
|
Newsroom
Centre
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emergency Response | 29 | 43 | 20 | 23 | 3 | 2 | · |
| Public Appeal For Information | 41 | 22 | 21 | 3 | 12 | · | · |
| Missing Person Search | 29 | 21 | 13 | 19 | 8 | · | 1 |
| Emergency Road Closures | 27 | 26 | 20 | 10 | 6 | · | · |
| Police Investigation Ongoing | 16 | 22 | 12 | 6 | 7 | · | · |
| Police Crash Investigation | 34 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 3 | · | · |
| Police Scene Examination | 17 | 22 | 17 | 1 | 4 | · | · |
| Homicide Investigation | 9 | 20 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 3 | · |
| Fuel Price Surge | 14 | 9 | 18 | 4 | 3 | · | 2 |
| Newspaper Digital Transition | · | · | · | 34 | · | · | · |
Article totals over the last 12 weeks. Lean assignments mirror the discourse-lens taxonomy and are tunable; see the methodology page.
