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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.
Alastair Thompson - Latest News [Page 50]
Scoop: We Want You To Go To The Zaoui Concert!
Friday, 30 July 2004, 10:59 pm | Alastair Thompson
Today Scoop's Kevin List took a bunch of flyers for this weekend's benefit concert to the home of the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (who issued the security risk certificate under which Mr Zaoui has been kept in prison for the past 20 months) ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Friday, 30 July 2004, 3:51 pm | Alastair Thompson
LEAD STORY: Pressure Turned Up High On The WTO In Geneva - Tamihere's "I Am Red Blooded, Hear Me Roar" Speech - UN Tribunal Quashes Croat War Criminal's War Crimes - Double Hard News And More Is There! - Pacific Ecologist: A Major challenge to Pacific ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Thursday, 29 July 2004, 4:01 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - LEAD STORY: Reserve Bank Ups OCR From 5.75 to 6 Percent - Bay Of Plenty OK After Another Deluge - Oil In Darfur? Who Would Have Thought - Simon Pound: Why Terrorists Are Like Dogs - Richard S. Ehrlich: Bangkok's Role In ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Wednesday, 28 July 2004, 4:54 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - LEAD STORY: Alexander Asks Nandor What Planet He Is On - New High Court and QC Appointments Announced - UN Criticises Swiss Asylum Seeker Law Reform - Hard News & More Is There! - The Inside Oil On Capital Business & Politics ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Tuesday, 27 July 2004, 5:12 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - LEAD STORY: PM's Presser With Kevin List - Team Alinghi Sacks Russell Courts - New Millennium African Humanitarian Crisis Arrives - Pacific Ecologist: Seabed Law Is Legislative Theft - David Miller: The Politics Of Speed ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Monday, 26 July 2004, 5:14 pm | Alastair Thompson
LEAD STORY: Scoop Investigation: NZ Foreign Affairs Invited Europeans To Damn RSAA Report - AG Responds To Supreme Court Head Criticisms - Australia and NZ Agree On Darfur Concerns - Stateside: Where Rosalea Takes Her Brain For A Spin - 911 Report: ... More >>
Scoop Top 30 Weekend Ratings
Monday, 26 July 2004, 10:59 am | Alastair Thompson
The Weekend’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were... More >>
Images: Scoop Fahrenheit 9/11 Preview
Saturday, 24 July 2004, 7:31 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop's Fahrenheit 9/11 preview screening went ahead virtually without a hitch on Friday night, raising a couple of hundred dollars for Indymedia Aotearoa. More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Friday, 23 July 2004, 4:49 pm | Alastair Thompson
High Court Judgment Means NZ's Head-Spook Becomes The Jailer - Tainui Announces $15.8 Million Profit - WSPA Concerned Over Cruelty Aspects To Whaling - Scoop Exclusive: NGOs Say Barkan In North Korea - 95bFM's Simon Pound Considers "Mossad Madness" Downunder ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Thursday, 22 July 2004, 7:57 pm | Alastair Thompson
LEAD STORY: AUDIO: Wanted Mossad Agent Aided By Multinational Security Solutions Co - Labour Caps Time Limit On Waitangi Claims - WSPA Concerned Over Cruelty Aspects To Whaling - Hard News & More Is There! - Fighting Talk From Fighting Talk - No Right ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Tuesday, 20 July 2004, 7:02 pm | Alastair Thompson
******************* SCOOP'S FAHRENHEIT 911 PREVIEW SOLD OUT - 10 AUCTION TICKETS REMAIN The 10 tickets in the auctions are currently selling for a substantial discount on our main list price. Support Independent Media - place a bid today.... and come ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Monday, 19 July 2004, 9:13 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Exclusive: NGOs Say Barkan In North Korea - Police Make Three Arrests In Historical Rape Investigations - Medic Witnesses Execution Of Unarmed Palestinian Youth - STORY OF THE WEEK: Israelis Imprisoned For Six Months For Passport Fraud - LAST WEEK's ... More >>
Scoop’s Fahrenheit 9/11 Screening - Last Chance!!!
Monday, 19 July 2004, 7:23 pm | Alastair Thompson
We have very nearly sold out this Friday’s special Scoop.co.nz preview screening of Fahrenheit 9/11 preceded by Guerrilla News Network’s Aftermath. More >>
Awatere Gets To Stay - Wins Costs Against ACT
Friday, 16 July 2004, 12:19 am | Alastair Thompson
In a Court of Appeal judgment just delivered Donna Awatere-Huata has won the right to stay in Parliament as an independent MP and has won court costs against the ACT Party, for whom she was elected. More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Thursday, 15 July 2004, 5:27 pm | Alastair Thompson
More Animals Tested On In NZ Labs - Sir Paul Reeves To Address Zaoui Concert - Israel Attacks UN Food Convoy In Gaza - Blair Escapes Iraq WMD Report Criticisms - Hard News Is There! & Fiona Rae Is On The Couch! - No Right Turn: Deconstructing Rich More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Wednesday, 14 July 2004, 7:16 pm | Alastair Thompson
Israel Invades On Eve Of UN Assembly Urgent Meeting - Alliance Says No Plan To Merge With Maori Party - Fight Against Terror Must Not Impinge Human Rights - Has Peters Defamed Ahmed Zaoui? - Lahar Prevention Would Have Been Smarter: Nats - Brash Policies ... More >>
Scoop 911 Preview Gets Better + AFTERMATH + Cash!
Wednesday, 14 July 2004, 2:21 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop 911 Preview Gets MULCHO Better: See AFTERMATH & Get Deception Cash NOTE NEW START TIME... 5.45pm Friday, July 23rd, Reading Cinemas More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Tuesday, 13 July 2004, 6:10 pm | Alastair Thompson
LEAD STORY: UN Condemns Israel For Latest Killings - Sowry Chucks In The Towel - Bosnia: EU Forces Take Over From NATO - Hard News & More Is There! - David Miller: A New Confident National Party More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Monday, 12 July 2004, 6:02 pm | Alastair Thompson
LEAD STORY: NZ Govt Welcomes Illegal Ruling Of Israeli Wall - Minister / Department Misinforms Nigel Hampton QC Over Zaoui Case - Amnesty Urges Syria To Stop Torturing Islamic Detainees - Stateside With Rosalea: The Political Capital Of Homophobia - ... More >>
SCOOP FAHRENHEIT 911 PREVIEW SCREENING 23rd JULY
Monday, 12 July 2004, 4:06 pm | Alastair Thompson
Do you want to see Michael Moore's Cannes Palm D'Or Fahrenheit 911 a week before it opens? Did you miss out on the booked out Film Festival screenings? Do you support the work of Independent Media? Do you have any Unanswered Questions about what happened ... More >>
