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Alastair Thompson
Scoop Publisher
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.
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Audio: Nats Announce Plain English Ed. Reporting
Wednesday, 31 August 2005, 8:19 pm | Alastair Thompson
Click on the links below to hear the entire Press Gallery presentation by Bill English and Don Brash on National Party policy on child and school performance reporting. The presentation was made this afternoon at 12.30pm. More >>
Audio: Brash Press Conf. On BRT Emails & Race
Wednesday, 31 August 2005, 2:27 pm | Alastair Thompson
With relation to the race relations policy announced on Monday, would you be willing to say that Roger Kerr and Roger Douglas provided you with good advice? Your supporters have suggested that this is simply a matter of unsolicited advice? Is that how you ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Tuesday, 30 August 2005, 8:12 pm | Alastair Thompson
Peters Attacks Dr Brash's Unofficial Advisers - Labour Demands Brash Pull Brownlee In Over Watergate-Style-Leak Accusations - REPORTS FROM THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL: - Turia Commits To Keeping National Out Of Government - - ACT Offers Fijian Good Times In ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Monday, 29 August 2005, 9:41 pm | Alastair Thompson
C.D. Sludge: Dr Don Brash - 'Tool Of The Business Roundtable' - SCOOP POLL WATCH: - Brash Releases Treaty Principles Policy - Mr Peters Misses Minor Parties Political Debate - Profits In Aussie And Pickets In New Zealand For Fairfax - Weather-Bomb ... More >>
Hurricane Katrina Poised To Clobber New Orleans
Monday, 29 August 2005, 4:46 pm | Alastair Thompson
Click for big version Super-Hurricane Katrina Makes A Beeline For Louisiana – Picture Nasa Modis More >>
Sludge Report #168 – Don Brash, Roundtable 'Tool'
Monday, 29 August 2005, 12:32 pm | Alastair Thompson
In a simply remarkable investigative report in today's Sunday Star Times Ruth Laugesen reports on a startling series of emails and faxes to National Party Leader Don Brash around the time of his coup against former leader Bill English in October 2003 . More >>
Audio & Transcript: John Key Defends Don Brash
Monday, 29 August 2005, 11:59 am | Alastair Thompson
Prior to the Sunday Star-Times , publishing a story linking National's leader Dr Don Brash to the 'hard right' , Scoop interviewed National's finance spokesperson John Key. More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Friday, 26 August 2005, 11:17 am | Alastair Thompson
TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS: - Labour And Greens Take Buzzsaw To National's Forestry Policy - Lyndon Hood Pokes Good Clean Fun At Tax Cuts: Satire - - Former All Black Captain Becomes Fairfax CEO - Greens Urge Govt To Get Economy Into Balance - Venezuela Appalled ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Thursday, 25 August 2005, 9:43 am | Alastair Thompson
Parliament's Top Party Finance Spokesmen Quizzed On Tax - What Is Really Behind This US/NZ Thaw In Security Relations? - Brash Tells Pensioners They Will Be $20 Better Off With Nats - Global Action On Small Weapons Gains Support - 73 Year-Old ... More >>
Scoop Election Briefing - National's John Key
Wednesday, 24 August 2005, 12:26 am | Alastair Thompson
Scoop's Alastair Thompson Interviews National Finance Spokesman John Key - Wednesday, 24 August 2005 – 10am – National Party Offices Parliament More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Tuesday, 23 August 2005, 5:50 pm | Alastair Thompson
ACT's Former MP Awatere-Huata Found Guilty Of Fraud - National's Tax Cut Likely To Increase Child Poverty In NZ - Maharey - Police Charge 14 Year Old With Concrete-Rock Murder - National Party Tax Cut Policy Details Announced - - Algeria's President ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Monday, 22 August 2005, 8:45 pm | Alastair Thompson
National Party Tax Cut Policy Details Announced - Cullen Accuses National Of Targeting Tax Cuts To The Selfish - Scoop Video Of Campaign Launchs: Ditch Widens Between Labour & National - Two TV News Polls Confirm Labour Leading - Video: Thousands Turn Out ... More >>
Post Pre-EFU The Tax Cut Competition Heats Up
Thursday, 18 August 2005, 1:45 pm | Alastair Thompson
Finance Minister Michael Cullen this morning unveiled the economic projections which will form the playing field for the economic debate of the election campaign, an economic playing field with little apparent room for immediate tax cuts as promised ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops (Don't Swallow Just Anything!)
Wednesday, 17 August 2005, 5:10 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop.co.nz just released a video today. Our own weird take on the Media and Chinese Whispers. Check it out and share it with your friends... http://www.scoop.co.nz/swallow/ - The Scoop Team More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Tuesday, 16 August 2005, 6:53 pm | Alastair Thompson
Govt Announces David Lange's Memorial In Auckland Saturday - Brash Announces August 22 As Tax Policy Release Day - - Labour Releases Pledge-Card 6 - Boost To Elective Surgery - - Three Quarters Want NZ To Be GM Free - National MP Told "Eat The Fish ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Monday, 15 August 2005, 4:39 pm | Alastair Thompson
TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS: Scoop Feature: New Zealand's Statesman Passes Away R.I.P. David Lange: A Great New Zealand Statesman Dies RECOMMENDED AUDIO: NZ LEAD: Mallard Announces Extra Teachers Plan Gecko Population Explodes In Wellington - Kevin List's A Week ... More >>
More >>Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Thursday, 4 August 2005, 5:59 pm | Alastair Thompson
Labour Announces Pledge No.4 – Treaty Claim Cut Off Date - NEW SCOOP AUDIO: - NZ LEAD: National Releases MFAT Notes on Lockwood Smith - Paul Buchanan Ends His Tolerance Of Winston - Dunne Questions National's Understanding of MMP - - Sonia Nettnin: Hiroshima ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Wednesday, 3 August 2005, 5:33 pm | Alastair Thompson
Goff Tables His Evidence Of Dr Smith's US Friendly Foreign Policy - Govt's Coalition And Support Partners Barred From TV3's Political Debate - Will Tax Cuts Be Used to Complete 1990s 'Unfinished Business' ? - - Lizard Day Gets Skinks Up-close n Cosy ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Tuesday, 2 August 2005, 7:13 pm | Alastair Thompson
LEAD STORY: Goff Picks Up Mallard's 'Knocked On' Foreign Policy Attack - SCOOP IS IN THE HOUSE - NZ LEAD: Will Tax Cuts Be Used to Complete 1990s 'Unfinished Business' ? - - PM's Press Conference On Streaming Video For The FIRST TIME! - Slandered Iraqi's ... More >>
