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.
Psychologists are required to understand themselves as culture bearers, recognise historical, social and political influences on health, and be open …
Read MoreMass media in Aotearoa: an obstacle to cultural competence
Mainstream TV news programmes (One News, Tonight, 3 News, Nightline, Prime News) carried very few Maori news stories (2% of …
Read More“Maori news is bad news”: That’s certainly so on television
Much of this article is summarised in the pages of alternatives to anti-Māori themes. The article also discusses a theme …
Read MoreAnti-Māori themes in New Zealand journalism – toward alternative practice
Three Maori focus groups from cities and smaller centres believed that negative representations and ethnic labelling of Maori in a …
Read MoreMāori experiences and responses to racism in New Zealand
The vast majority of interventions use education to change individual attitudes and beliefs. Treaty and decolonisation education in Aotearoa has …
News media in settler societies such as New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the USA masks the dominant culture, ensuring it …
Māori were prominently associated with crime in a large representative sample of newspaper NZ items. Māori were frequently labelled as …
Read MoreThe association of crime stories and Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand print media
Maori people appeared rarely in newspapers in 2008; there was very low proportion of newspaper stories about Maori, just over …
The news media are not neutral or objective. Our research and that of many other media researchers shows that the …
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