Related resources
Other Journalism and Media Studies resources:
2004 Accuracy, balance and fairness leaflet
relating media standards to the research results (350Kb)
Newspaper headlines about Māori and the Treaty
We have collected three examples of newspaper headlines from 2004 and 2007, and ask:
What words and images come to mind about Maori?
What words and images come to mind about the Treaty and settlements?
Replace the words Maori, tribe or iwi with Pakeha. What effect does that have?
Headline example one
Headline example two
Headline example three
Newspaper articles about Maori and the Treaty
We have copied three articles about Maori and the Treaty from 2004 onto single A4 sheets, and ask:
 What is being said?

Who is speaking?

What text components and associations are used and evoked?

Who is the audience?

What is the effect of saying it this way?
Trevor Mallard and powhiri
Foreshore and seabed hearings article
Marine farms Treaty settlement article
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Audience perspectives on media construction of Maori and te Tiriti
This PowerPoint summarises a presentation to the 2009 Public Health Association Conference.
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