Kupu Taea is an Auckland-based media research group, based at Te Rōpū Whāriki in Massey University. We have studied how news media represent te Tiriti and Māori issues since 2003. We analysed three representative news samples from 2004, early 2007 and 2007/8.
Results from the 2008 study are summarised in the more recent of the following academic articles; results from the earlier studies are summarised below and available in two reports. These projects were funded by the Cathy Pelly Maungarongo Trust, the JR McKenzie Foundation, the Health Research Council of NZ and the JR McKenzie Trust.
Media coverage of a 1998 health research project on inherited stomach cancer mostly represented the discoveries as the achievement of …
Read MoreColonial coverage – Media reporting of a bicultural health research partnership
A 42-page A4 report about newspaper and TV coverage in 2004 …
This article focuses on New Zealand media representations of Māori and the contributions media make to the ongoing processes of …
These negative labels were overwhelming applied to Māori in newspapers in 2007, and used largely by journalists rather than sources …
In a submission on the review of NZ Press Council Kupu Taea recommended that a separate and completely independent body, …
When mass TV news programmes in 2007 talked of unity, they portrayed a New Zealand nation in which Māori rights …
A 4-page A4 landscape media checklist …
Read MoreA checklist for media audiences to assess news stories
Kupu Taea recommended that Police and other justice agencies improve their collection and reporting of ethnicity data about offenders to …
Read MoreSubmission to the review of crime and criminal justice statistics
A 4-page summary about newspaper and TV coverage in 2007. …
Newspapers provided very little support for our endangered indigenous official language. They used a very small number of intentional words …
Read MoreIntentional use of te reo Māori in New Zealand newspapers in 2007
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