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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.
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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 22 Jul 2026 · topic analysis updated 0m 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
Katie Nimon
×56.0 14 this week vs 0.2 prior
22 Jul
mp
Andy Foster
×4.0 4 this week vs 1.0 prior
22 Jul
mp
Tim Costley
×5.0 5 this week vs 1.0 prior
22 Jul
topic
×5.3 4 this week vs 0.8 prior
22 Jul
topic
×4.0 4 this week vs 1.0 prior
22 Jul
topic
×20.0 5 this week vs 0.2 prior
22 Jul
topic
×16.0 4 this week vs 0.2 prior
22 Jul
topic
×16.0 4 this week vs 0.2 prior
22 Jul
topic
×3.0 6 this week vs 2.0 prior
22 Jul
topic
×16.0 4 this week vs 0.2 prior
22 Jul
topic
×16.0 4 this week vs 0.2 prior
22 Jul
topic
×16.0 4 this week vs 0.2 prior
22 Jul

Top topics — Last 7 days Methodology →

The canonical topics with the most reporting across the seven NZ outlets in the trailing 7 days — a sliding window, so the cards keep working through the Monday handover. The trend figure compares the selected period to its prior 4-week mean.

Eden Park Unbeaten Record
15 articles +900%

32-year unbeaten record under scrutiny ahead of match

Tsunami Advisory Cancellation
15 articles new

public safety guidance updated after seismic event

All Blacks Vs France Test Match
14 articles +60%

all blacks secure decisive victory over ireland

Iran Military Strikes
12 articles +118%

escalation of targeted attacks across iranian provinces

Fuel Price Surge
11 articles +450%

global energy markets react to supply uncertainty

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 →
Stuff Centre-left
RNZ Centre
1News (TVNZ) Centre
NZ Herald Centre-right
Newsroom Centre
The Spinoff Centre-left
NZ Herald — Crime Government / N-A
Emergency Response 59 47 42 31 52 · · 1
Missing Person Search 31 20 18 15 24 · · ·
Emergency Road Closures 28 22 19 25 13 · · ·
Police Accountability 20 23 12 15 10 1 · ·
Public Safety Warnings 23 17 18 12 7 · · ·
Iran Military Strikes 22 6 22 14 2 1 · ·
All Blacks Vs France Test Match 12 12 8 13 3 · 1 ·
India-Nz Free Trade Agreement 4 19 6 5 4 2 3 ·
Missile Testing In Pacific 5 13 9 4 3 1 1 ·
India-Nz Strategic Ties · 11 9 4 7 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.