Radio New Zealand News coverage of the Samoan tsunami
Radio New Zealand tracks all local and international media which acknowledge Radio New Zealand as the source of news items published in print or electronic formats. This tracking includes all major overseas media outlets.
On average we get 250 to 350 mentions a week from local and international media. Radio New Zealand's coverage of the Samoan earthquake and tsunami meant that our news stories were referred to a remarkable 1224 times in other media stories during the week of that event.
See the attached graph for an indication of the impact of the earthquake and tsunami coverage.
Note that these figures only include those media that actually acknowledge Radio New Zealand as their source.

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