1News

Crosswire lists 1News as Center within New Zealand's media spectrum — the grouping it uses both for genuinely centrist titles and for outlets the major media-bias assessments do not place consistently on one side.

Read 1News beside another title from New Zealand and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Broadcast newsrooms build around what can be shown and who can be booked, so 1News's online front page tends to track its on-air running order — watch which stories carry video and which are text-only. Because 1News is listed near the centre, it works best as the fixed point in a comparison — put a left- and a right-leaning title from New Zealand either side of it and the direction each one pulls becomes measurable rather than impressionistic.

This is an approximate orientation, not a definitive judgement — and not a rating of quality or accuracy. Read how Crosswire classifies editorial leanings, including the sources behind each label. Directory last reviewed 2026-08-31. Think this label is wrong? Suggest a correction.

1News is one of 6 outlets tracked in New Zealand and the only television news channel tracked there. By outlets tracked, New Zealand ranks second of the 8 countries on Crosswire's Oceania hub, which lists 32 outlets in all.

Across Oceania, Crosswire tracks 3 of the 66 television news channels in the directory. The nearest counterparts to 1News outside New Zealand, starting with Australia and New Zealand, are Sky News Australia (Australia) and EMTV Online (Papua New Guinea). Opening one of them beside 1News is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.