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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 47]
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Tuesday, 28 September 2004, 6:24 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Editorial: Govt’s Supreme Court Bid In TVNZ-Zaoui Case A High Powered Gagging Writ - PM Announces Major Skills-Building Package - UN Seeks To Keep Chem-Bio-Nuke Weapons Out of Terrorists’ Hands - STORY OF THE WEEK Scoop Report: Hubbard’s Fortitude ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Monday, 27 September 2004, 6:06 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Report: Hubbard’s Fortitude And Leadership Tested By Right-Smear-Attacks - Kiwi Defence’s Iraq Contingent Back In NZ - Sudan May Face UN Sanctions Over Reluctance To Secure Darfur - Iraq’s PM Says WWIII Is Being Fought On His Turf - The Total Abhorrentness ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Friday, 24 September 2004, 6:12 pm | Alastair Thompson
Depleted Uranium Use In Iraq Making Population And Soldiers Sick - Govt Moves To Issue Zimbabweans Permanent Residency - Quartet Wakes Up And Demands Israel Meet Road Map Obligations - Police Apologise Over Zaoui/FIS/Terror Link Mistake - Outing ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Thursday, 23 September 2004, 4:31 pm | Alastair Thompson
NZ Signs Up To United Nations Mercenaries Convention - Mentally Ill Get Solitary Confinement And DHB’s Call This ‘Treatment’ - Bush Calls For UN To Adopt Democracy Fund - First Hand: Fear and Loving Inside Palestine - Blogsters Exercise A Democratic ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Wednesday, 22 September 2004, 4:36 pm | Alastair Thompson
LEAD STORY: NZ Urges UN Reform To Ensure Relevancy - Wellington Bypass A Massive Waste Of Money – Tim O'Brien - Bush Calls For UN To Adopt Democracy Fund - Three Hurricanes, One Big Ocean - The Inside Oil On Wellington Politics And Business - ... More >>
Scoop Images: Hurricanes Jeanne, Karl And Lisa
Wednesday, 22 September 2004, 2:48 pm | Alastair Thompson
Following close in the wake of hurricanes Charley, Frances and Ivan, three new hurricanes - Jeanne, Karl and Lisa - are now meandering around the Atlantic Ocean and bringing a sense of unease to those living in coastal areas of the United States. More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Tuesday, 21 September 2004, 5:13 pm | Alastair Thompson
LEAD STORY: Police Aplogise Over Zaoui/FIS/Terror Link Mistake - Cruelty Of Battery Hen Egg Farming Highlighted - Bush Received ‘Dark Assessment’ Of Failures In Iraq - STORY OF THE WEEK: Amnesty Asks Govt Where Is Justice - Public Address: David Slack ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Monday, 20 September 2004, 5:12 pm | Alastair Thompson
LEAD STORY: PM Reveals NZ Police Botch-Up Labelled FIS A Terror Organisation - Air New Zealand Finally Takes No For An Answer - Cheney Targeted As Kerry Campaign Launches Iraq Offensive - Zaoui Refused Bail But TVNZ Granted Right To Interview - Hard News ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Friday, 17 September 2004, 4:15 pm | Alastair Thompson
LEAD STORY: Zaoui Refused Bail But TVNZ Granted Right To Interview - NZ Govt Non-Consultation With Maori Tabled At United Nations - Internationalists Detail Evidence Of Nablus Massacre - STORY OF THE WEEK: Remembering 9/11: Truth Movement Marches On - LINK: ... More >>
NEWSFLASH: Zaoui To Stay In Jail
Friday, 17 September 2004, 2:40 pm | Alastair Thompson
The Court of Appeal has announced its decisions in two appeal cases related to jailed Algerian security risk certificate recipient Ahmed Zaoui. In a split decision the court voted two to one against allowing Mr Zaoui to be bailed. Justice Hammond dissented. More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Thursday, 16 September 2004, 2:53 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - LEAD STORY: Are You In With Tim? - Sunday Herald Bans Collective – Herald Journalists Revolt - Israel Continues Extrajudicial Executions - STORY OF THE WEEK: John Roughan: Remembering 9/11 In The Solomons - Hard News & More Is There! ... More >>
Scoop Images: Hurricane Ivan Makes Landfall
Thursday, 16 September 2004, 2:28 pm | Alastair Thompson
The eye of Hurricane Ivan is a few hours away from making landfall on the US southern coast. Ground Zero appears to be Mobile, Alabama, near to the Alabama Mississippi border. More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Wednesday, 15 September 2004, 3:44 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - LEAD STORY: Greens Want Answers On Monsanto Rat Study Suppression - Medical Association Urges MPs Not The Change Abortion Law - U.S And Russia Assist South Korea In Nuke-Race - STORY OF THE WEEK: Remembering 9/11 - Another Open Letter ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Tuesday, 14 September 2004, 4:38 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - LEAD STORY: Scoop PM's Presser Coverage With Kevin List - Secret Police Dope Spray Ingredients Revealed - Scoop Link: Syria And Lebanon Reject UN Interference - STORY OF THE WEEK: Remembering 9/11: "Confronting The Evidence" ... More >>
Ingredients Of Secret Police Dope Spray Revealed
Tuesday, 14 September 2004, 2:37 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop has received a response to an Official Information Act request detailing the till now secret ingredients contained in the blue spray used by police in aerial spraying campaigns against cannabis plantations. More >>
Scoop Images: Ivan Spares Cuba, Heads For USA
Tuesday, 14 September 2004, 11:24 am | Alastair Thompson
Hurricane Ivan has spared Cuba the brunt of his Category 5 force (250kmh) winds and is now heading north into the Gulf of Mexico towards the Southern States of the United States of America. Already the hurricane has killed at least 68 people in the Caribbean ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Monday, 13 September 2004, 4:45 pm | Alastair Thompson
LEAD STORY: Nats Want Clinicians To Inform Parents Of Abortions - Maharey Seeks Skill-Based Immigration Plan - Belarus Cracks Down On Offending Poets - STORY OF THE WEEK: Remembering 9/11: The Dumbest Election Ever - Remembering 9/11: More Events, ... More >>
Scoop Images: Ivan Strengthens Heads For Cuba
Sunday, 12 September 2004, 3:12 pm | Alastair Thompson
Category five Hurricane Ivan is now one of the most dangerous hurricanes on record in the Caribbean with a central pressure approaching 900mb and packing winds in excess of 250 kmh. More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Friday, 10 September 2004, 3:49 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - LEAD STORY: NZ Government Appalled By Jakarta Bomb-Blast - Tertiary Minister Urged To Enter Vic Fees Mediation - GAZA: UN Condemns Israel’s Continued Killing Of Palestinians - Russell Brown Says Cheers To The Sheilas - Jamaica ... More >>
Scoop Images: Hurricane Ivan To Clobber Jamaica
Friday, 10 September 2004, 2:33 pm | Alastair Thompson
Hurricane Ivan, now Category 5, has strengthened markedly over the last 24 hours and is bearing down on Jamaica where 500,000 people have been urged to evacuate from low lying areas of the Island group. On its way towards Jamaica Ivan clobbered the ... More >>
