The Media Council has ruled that a headline and introduction to a story on the prevalence of sexual assault among university students was misleading.
The June 6 article was headlined "One in three students are sexually assaulted during their studies: new research".
The first paragraph read "One in three university students will be sexually assaulted while they are studying, new research reveals."
The article, published in the New Zealand Herald, reported on the findings of a survey that
had been sent to 2700 students at a New Zealand university.
On reading the full article it became clear the headline was based on the findings from those who had chosen to respond. More than a third of those respondents said they had experienced some form of sexual assault.