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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 9 Sep 2026 · topic analysis updated 20h 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.

topic
×16.0 4 this week vs 0.2 prior
10 Sep
topic
×8.0 4 this week vs 0.5 prior
10 Sep
topic
×3.0 6 this week vs 2.0 prior
10 Sep
topic
×8.0 6 this week vs 0.8 prior
10 Sep
topic
×16.0 4 this week vs 0.2 prior
10 Sep
topic
×4.6 8 this week vs 1.8 prior
10 Sep
topic
×16.0 4 this week vs 0.2 prior
10 Sep
topic
×20.0 5 this week vs 0.2 prior
10 Sep
topic
×8.0 4 this week vs 0.5 prior
10 Sep
topic
×3.3 5 this week vs 1.5 prior
10 Sep
topic
×8.0 4 this week vs 0.5 prior
10 Sep
topic
×8.0 4 this week vs 0.5 prior
10 Sep

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.

Emergency Response At Crash Site
13 articles +247%

fire and medical services dispatched immediately

Emergency Response
10 articles +54%

rapid response to gas alert in Christchurch

Rotorua Triple Murder
9 articles +1700%

traumatic night-time killings in a residential home

Lotto Powerball Draw
8 articles +33%

multiple smaller prizes distributed nationwide

Labour-National Polling Decline
8 articles +300%

labour's own data suggests a downward trend in support

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
1News (TVNZ) Centre
NZ Herald Centre-right
RNZ Centre
The Spinoff Centre-left
Newsroom Centre
NZ Herald — Crime Government / N-A
Emergency Response 40 32 38 22 · · 2
Emergency Road Closures 28 32 19 27 · · ·
Lotto Powerball Draw 28 9 26 · · · ·
Emergency Response At Crash Site 17 19 13 7 · · ·
U16 Social Media Ban 15 6 13 11 7 3 ·
South Island Snow Warnings 16 16 8 14 · · ·
Springboks Vs All Blacks Fixtures 27 9 1 7 · · ·
Missing New Zealanders In Nepal 5 7 5 19 · 1 ·
Flash Floods In Nepal 9 11 3 12 · 1 ·
Post-Mortem Investigation 11 13 3 9 · · ·

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.