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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 42]
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Friday, 21 January 2005, 5:00 pm | Alastair Thompson
LEAD STORY: Scoop Election Year Commentary: Labour And National - A Battle Between Third Way and Old Right - Another Big Quake Shakes Wellington At 8am - Inauguration Full Coverage: Thom Hartmann - The Robber Barons Are Back - Palestine Moves To Display ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Thursday, 20 January 2005, 6:55 pm | Alastair Thompson
Unionist Bill Anderson Dies - Tamihere's Speech: Was It Edited By The 9th Floor? - Bomb Explodes Near Australian Embassy Baghdad - Richard Ehrlich's Tsunami Report: Ghosts Among The Disaster - A Statistician Talks US Election Malfeasance - Scoop's ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Wednesday, 19 January 2005, 4:03 pm | Alastair Thompson
Thefts Drive Oxfam To Withdraw Collection Tins - PM Announces New Zealand's Largest Ever Aid Package: $68 Million For Tsunami Victims - Africa's HIV/AIDS Children Left To Die - A Statistician Talks US Election Malfeasance - Public Address Is There! ... More >>
Swarm Of Earthquakes Hits Wellington Region
Tuesday, 18 January 2005, 10:59 pm | Alastair Thompson
Since 6.54pm this evening there have been five earthquakes in roughly the same spot 40km south east of Martinborough off the Wairarapa Coast. More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Tuesday, 18 January 2005, 5:09 pm | Alastair Thompson
PM Announces New Zealand's Largest Ever Aid Package: $68 Million For Tsunami Victims - Mayor And Former Cop Says Hawkins Must Address Police Understaffing - United Nations Conceeds It Has Done All It Can For Iraq Elections - Tattoos Help Forensic Identification ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Monday, 17 January 2005, 3:54 pm | Alastair Thompson
Schools Under Staffed - Govt Says 05 Is Not So Bad - Green Co-Leader Maps Out Election Year Platform - UNESCO: Democracy Under Fire In Columbia - Journalist Assassinated - Richard Ehrlich's Tsunami Report: Embassy Squabbles Hold Up Forensics At Morgue ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Friday, 14 January 2005, 4:26 pm | Alastair Thompson
PM Announces NZ Delegation Leaves For Kobe UN Disaster Conference Sunday - Police Seek Identification Of Man In Wanganui Homicide Inquiry - Nasa's Cassini Probe To Land On Titan - Richard Ehrlich's Tsunami Report: Sick Side Of Thai Entrepreneurship ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Thursday, 13 January 2005, 6:04 pm | Alastair Thompson
Kiwis Donate $2million To Tsunami Via World Vision - Homicide Inquiry: Police Seek Those In Wanganui On Friday 7 January - Amnesty Welcomes Central African Republic Impunity Referral To Int. Criminal Court - Palestinians Vote In Abbas As New President ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Wednesday, 12 January 2005, 6:54 pm | Alastair Thompson
Palestinians Vote In Abbas As New President - A Rose IS A Rose And Torture Is A Crime - Unkindest Cut Advocated By United Future For Sex Offenders - Bill English Attacks Community Education And Golf - Disabled Cantabrian Cannabis Users Release Welcomed ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Tuesday, 11 January 2005, 6:41 pm | Alastair Thompson
LEAD STORY: - Sunday To Be Tsunami Memorial Day - Kiwis spent $3.2b With EFTPOS in December 2004 - TSUNAMI HEADLINES: - Scoop Feedback: Arab Nations Are Raising Money For Victims - INTERNATIONAL NEWS: - Palestinians Vote In Abbas As New President - ... More >>
Scoop Images: The Boxing Day Swarm Of Earthquakes
Monday, 27 December 2004, 3:40 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Images: The Boxing Day Swarm Of Earthquakes The death toll from the Tsunami caused by the huge richter 9.0 earthquake off the coast of Acheh / Sumatra has as of now p More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops (Merry Christmas Everybody)
Friday, 24 December 2004, 5:13 pm | Alastair Thompson
LEAD STORY: Kiwis Abroad: Caritas Christmas In Darfur - Sludge Report: Scoop's 2004 Award Recipient's Are… - U.S. Military Iris Scans Fighting Age Iraqis In Falluja - American Coup II: William Rivers Pitt: Enter Stage Left Big John - American Coup ... More >>
Sludge Report #166 – 2004 Parliamentary Awards
Friday, 24 December 2004, 3:05 pm | C.D. Sludge
The following awards recognise New Zealand Members of Parliament for their notable achievements and notable gaffes during the course of 2004. They were decided by a panel of Scoop.co.nz experts and the judges' decisions are final. More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Thursday, 23 December 2004, 5:41 pm | Alastair Thompson
LEAD STORY: Scoop Report: Don Brash An Idealogue! Who Would Have Thought? - Dunne Issues His Worst Behaved Politician 04 List - WTO Begins Accession Plans For Afghanistan and Iraq - American Coup II: Rawstory.com: - Rep. Conyers Seeks Exit Poll Data - ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Wednesday, 22 December 2004, 5:28 pm | Alastair Thompson
LEAD STORY: Govt Announces New Animal Welfare Codes - Don Brash An Idealogue! Who Would Have Thought? - Pinochet's Arrest Opens Doors To Chilean Justice - Hard News Is There! - Fighting Talk Rises To Lofty Heights Of Comparative Reasoning - Meditations: ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Tuesday, 21 December 2004, 6:17 pm | Alastair Thompson
LEAD STORY: Tamihere Welcomes Douglas White Q.C. Report Into His Tax Affairs - Scoop Report: Prime Minister Details A Centralised Intelligence Bureau - Gaza: United Nations School Shelters 600 Palestinian Families - Paul Buchanan On The Nature Of Just Wars ... More >>
Scoop Images: PM Stands Up For Tamihere
Tuesday, 21 December 2004, 2:29 pm | Alastair Thompson
A media standup (impromptu press conference)was held today at 1.15pm in the PM's office by PM Helen Clark, Deputy PM Michael Cullen and John Tamihere MP to mark the release of the Douglas White Q.C. report into Mr Tamihere's relationship with the ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Monday, 20 December 2004, 6:09 pm | Alastair Thompson
LEAD STORY: BREAKING: PM Announces Cabinet Reshuffle - GPJA Investigation Urges Govt To Act Against 'Loan Sharks' - United Nations' Geneva Office Bugged - American Coup II: Yet More New Evidence Of Fraud In Ohio Recount - Stateside: What's That ... More >>
NEWSFLASH: Cabinet Reshuffle Main Changes
Monday, 20 December 2004, 4:37 pm | Alastair Thompson
Cullen - Attorney General (vacated by Margaret Wilson) Burton – Treaty Negotiations (vacated by Margaret Wilson) Hogson – Commerce (vacated by Margaret Wilson) Benson-Pope – Picks up Associate education & mentioned in dispatches as a capable minister More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Friday, 17 December 2004, 6:26 pm | Alastair Thompson
LEAD STORY: Fair Pay Breakthrough For Nurses Announced - State Service's Investigation Into Emergency Response Unit Released - UN Reconstructs Homes Demolished By Israel In Jenin 2002 Raids - American Coup II: What Happens When You Challenge The Ohio ... More >>
