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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Press topic

Rail Network Neglect

2 articles · 2 aliases in press · peaked week of 24 May 2026 · first seen 30 May 2026

The government's $106.9m allocation for Wellington and Auckland's metro rail networks is seen as a necessary but insufficient step to address decades of neglect, maintenance backlogs, and declining service reliability.

Coverage by outlet lean Methodology →

Stacked weekly counts; colour by editorial lean. Stuff and The Spinoff lean centre-left, NZ Herald centre-right, others centre.

Alias drift

How press outlets have named this topic, week by week.

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Recent headlines

Most recent 2 articles linking to this topic.

Sample framings

Up to 12 framings spread across outlets. Each framing is the LLM's one-line characterisation of the article's editorial angle — not a quote.

rnz Centre

temporary and permanent fixes implemented

KiwiRail contractor stood down over 'faulty' track welding working for organisation after retraining

14 Jun

rnz Centre

decades of under-investment have left systems in disrepair

Budget 2026: Rail network funding boost not enough to fix 'generations of neglect' - councillor

28 May

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