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 5h 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 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.
unintended collision turned into deliberate assault
final push to meet the closing date for voter registration
scheduled fixture in the world cup pool stage
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 | 40 | 22 | 21 | 3 | 12 | · | · |
| Missing Person Search | 29 | 21 | 13 | 19 | 8 | · | 1 |
| Emergency Road Closures | 27 | 26 | 20 | 10 | 6 | · | · |
| Police Crash Investigation | 34 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 3 | · | · |
| Police Investigation Ongoing | 15 | 22 | 12 | 6 | 7 | · | · |
| Police Scene Examination | 17 | 22 | 16 | 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.
