Suburban Newspapers’ reporting of Māori news
MEDIA RESEARCH
Description
Māori and non-Māori readers were poorly served by Suburban Newspapers coverage of the Treaty and Māori issues in their Auckland and Northland community papers. Māori stories made up less than three percent of all stories, despite high proportions of Māori residents in many of the newspaper areas. Suburban Newspaper items had a higher proportion of what appeared to be news releases, and used fewer sources representing iwi and hapu than other community newspapers. The papers used the same low proportion of words in te reo – an average of two intentional words (those with an English alternative) per article – as other newspapers.
Resources
Resource type
Academic article
Year
2011
Primary author
Jenny Rankine
Secondary author(s)
Angela Moewaka Barnes, Belinda Borell, Tim McCreanor, Ray Nairn, Amanda Gregory