16 Sep 2025

What we can learn from how NZ media covered Covid 19

From Afternoons, 1:32 pm on 16 September 2025

How New Zealand media covered Covid-19 made the pandemic seem like a competition or a war the country was winning. 

That's according to a University of Otago study. 

Bioethics researchers analysed more than a thousand news articles .. and the result is fascinating. 

 Lead author and PHD candidate Emma Anderson talks to Jesse.

Illustration of coronavirus particles. Coronaviruses cause several diseases in humans, including covid-19, SARS and forms of the common cold. (Photo by NOBEASTSOFIERCE/SCIENCE PHOTO LI / DDJ / Science Photo Library via AFP)

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