6 Mar 2016

Contrasting coverage of refugee resettlement

From Mediawatch, 9:08 am on 6 March 2016
Members of New Zealand's Syrian community gather to welcome new refugee arrivals to Wellington on 26 February 2016.

Members of New Zealand's Syrian community gather to welcome new refugee arrivals to Wellington. Photo: RNZ / Kate Pereyra Garcia

The arrival of the first recent batch of refugees from Syria to settle in Wellington was a highly anticipated event for the news media.

Yet Mediawatch finds the heart-warming media coverage of the refugees getting settled did not give a full picture: