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Alastair Thompson
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Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
Alastair Thompson - Latest News [Page 2]
The News Crisis & Scoop - Once More Unto The Breach
Wednesday, 13 June 2018, 8:00 am | Alastair Thompson
Today as our 19th year of publishing begins, the simple truth is that the global News Media is fighting at present for its survival with only bows and arrows, against an enemy armed with cannons. More >>
"Systematic Murder" Complaint Filed To ICC Over Gaza Killings
Tuesday, 22 May 2018, 4:30 am | Alastair Thompson
As diplomatic condemnations of the Gaza Massacre death toll from last Monday continue to echo around the world, an International Criminal Court investigation into war crimes committed by Israeli Defence Force snipers against Palestinian prostesters ... More >>
Why I am supporting the PressCoin ICO - Alastair Thompson
Monday, 11 December 2017, 5:07 pm | Alastair Thompson
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been working behind the scenes getting to know the team behind Presscoin.com , the latest participant in the remarkable Initial Coin Offering (ICO) boom which is rocking financial markets around the world, and ... More >>
An Important Message To Professional Users Of Scoop
Tuesday, 11 April 2017, 9:20 am | Alastair Thompson
First, thank you to all our newsagent subscribers and accredited professional organisations. This message is not addressed to you. More >>
An Appeal To All Friends Of Scoop - This Is Not A Drill
Sunday, 2 April 2017, 12:14 pm | Alastair Thompson
An Appeal To All Friends Of Scoop.co.nz - This Is Not A Drill - Please Pledge Today ....including, a Scoop finances FAQ + a brief history of Scoop's crowd-funding efforts to date... A Special Message From Scoop Co-Founder Alastair Thompson More >>
The Role Of A Free Press In Defending & Fostering Democracy
Sunday, 12 March 2017, 6:06 pm | Alastair Thompson
The arrival of Trump is a wake-up call, not just to the Anglosphere and the developed world, but to our entire planet. Democracy it turns out is much more fragile than we thought. More >>
Inauguration Day – Nothing Will Ever Be The Same Again
Saturday, 21 January 2017, 11:08 am | Alastair Thompson
Over the past two months since his election the expanding clouds of chaos and uncertainty generated by the approaching Trump presidency have transfixed the world. More >>
Healing the fracture in Hope Fault | Alastair Thompson - 500 Words
Tuesday, 15 November 2016, 9:55 am | Alastair Thompson
Healing the fracture in Hope Fault ...or... Why we all need a crash course in understanding aftershocks. More >>
Helen Kelly And The Compassionless People
Tuesday, 8 November 2016, 5:38 am | Alastair Thompson
I wasn't a close friend of Helen Kelly's. But her passing has moved me to tears more than once in the past two weeks. I feel honoured to be one of the many who worked with her and was helped by her. More >>
NZ Farewells Trade Union Hero Helen Kelly – Video & Tweetstory
Saturday, 29 October 2016, 4:57 am | Alastair Thompson
Trade unionist Helen Kelly died on October 14th aged 52. Yesterday - Friday 28th October - she was bid farewell at a public memorial meeting at Wellington's Michael Fowler Center in speech and songs. She will be missed. More >>
How Sunday's Rebel Victory In Aleppo Has Reshaped The Entire War In Syria
Thursday, 11 August 2016, 12:43 pm | Alastair Thompson
Over the past five days, the already hellish situation in Aleppo has taken a dramatic turn for the worse. Caught unawares by the developments the global superpowers appear to have few ideas of how to respond. Writing from France Scoop's Alastair Thompson ... More >>
A democratic path forward to mandate a plan for #Brexit
Sunday, 26 June 2016, 12:03 am | Alastair Thompson
The UK's decision to vote for #Brexit has left the world stunned. Strikingly in its aftermath there is now no plan. 17 million Britons voted to jump into the unknown. So what should be done now? Must the UK march blindly forward? Surely we remain masters ... More >>
The Brexit Vote Is No Triumph For Democracy & Here Is Why
Friday, 24 June 2016, 12:12 pm | Alastair Thompson
What ever happens this morning it is clear that something went horribly wrong with the United Kingdom's Brexit referendum. This is not how democracy is supposed to work. More >>
Jo Cox's Killing Looms Large As Brexit Heads Down To Wire
Monday, 20 June 2016, 5:05 am | Alastair Thompson
The mourning period for the brutally slain pro-remain Labour MP and mother of two Jo Cox was always going to be brief. Today, Sunday 19th June, with four days to go till polling, the Brexit campaign resumed. More >>
Una Revolución Política Pacífica Empezó En Francia
Friday, 10 June 2016, 8:39 pm | Alastair Thompson
Francia ha sido un poco lenta en ponerse en movimiento hacia la rehabilitación de un verdadero ejercicio democrático; pero ya no, y para probarlo está le despegada de la carrera a la Elección presidencial Francesa del 2017. More >>
Schibsted News Group Proposes a Global Media Alliance To Take On Google & Facebook
Tuesday, 7 June 2016, 8:34 am | Alastair Thompson
When one of the most financially successful news companies on the planet proposes a radical solution to the "News Crisis" it's worth taking a deep dive inside. More >>
Une Révolution Politique Paisible Commence en France
Monday, 25 April 2016, 11:34 pm | Alastair Thompson
Aujourd'hui (le 19 avril 2016) la ville qui ne dort jamais livrera un verdict sur Bernie Sander « la Révolution Politique ». En attendant, de l’autre côté de l'Atlantique, en France, une autre élection primaire vient de commencer. More >>
A Peaceful Political Revolution Begins In France | 500 Words
Wednesday, 20 April 2016, 3:09 am | Alastair Thompson
Today (19th April 2016) the city that never sleeps will deliver a verdict on Bernie Sanders "Political Revolution". Meanwhile Across the Atlantic in France another primary race has just begun - for an independent "people's candidate" to stand against France's increasingly ... More >>
The Promise Of The #PanamaPapers - What Happens Next?
Tuesday, 5 April 2016, 9:29 am | Alastair Thompson
#PanamaPapers is at least the fourth shot at revealing the dirty underbelly of a system of capital ownership in which secrecy and privacy exist by design. Earlier attempts have certainly produced results in the form of column inches printed and ... More >>
Waiting for the Eurogroup - Explosive IMF Leak Re: Greece
Saturday, 2 April 2016, 10:00 pm | Alastair Thompson
Wikileaks has today released a transcript (published in full below) of a meeting between three senior IMF managers discussing frustrations around their attempts to negotiate a way to avoid another Greek sovereign debt default in July this year. More >>
