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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 61]
Sludge Report #161 – A $64Bn Gorilla At The Fed
Thursday, 27 November 2003, 11:35 am | C.D. Sludge
A $64Bn Dollar Gorilla At The Fed - What The Pointy Heads Are Saying About The Gorilla More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Wednesday, 26 November 2003, 4:16 pm | Alastair Thompson
Police Searching For Gunman Find Body - Select Committee Advocates Donor Organ Register Replacement - Arab World Mourning: Scoop Columnist Firas Al-Atraqchi Writes - Stateside: The End Of Medi-care - Latest From Public Address - Martin LeFevre: Short Circuiting ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Tuesday, 25 November 2003, 3:18 pm | Alastair Thompson
Zaoui Case: Inspector Gen Of Intelligence Should Step Down - Kiwi Drivers To Be ‘Encouraged’ To Improve Driving Skills - Iron Fist Inside A Velvet Glove - Scoop Images: Fell Beasts Swoop Into The Capital - Big News: Statistics, Families And Child ... More >>
Scoop Images: The Nazgul Swoop Into Wellington
Monday, 24 November 2003, 6:24 pm | Alastair Thompson
Two giant Nazgul riding winged Fell Beasts swooped into Courtenay Place on Sunday in preparation for the festivities surrounding the World premiere of Peter Jackson's Return Of The King, the third part of the Lord of the Rings trilogy next weekend. More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Monday, 24 November 2003, 4:10 pm | Alastair Thompson
Californian Bombshell Electoral System Changes & Scoop - Govt Dollar For Dollar Support For Otago Uni Programme - Georgia’s Velvet Revolution Succeeds: Shevardnadze Resigns - FTAA Protesters Hammered By Miami Police - Stateside With Rosalea: Briefly ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Friday, 21 November 2003, 5:56 pm | Alastair Thompson
Istanbul Bombings Target British Consulate: 26 Dead - Crown To Proceed With Kupe Gas Field Sale - Blood, Oil, Guns, Bullets Partner the Neoliberlisation Agenda: Aziz Choudry Writes - Bush Schmoozes Whitehall Over Iraq Invasion - UK Indymedia On The ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Thursday, 20 November 2003, 2:31 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - Bush Schmoozes Whitehall Over Iraq Invasion - Indymedia Is On The Barricades As Bush Invades London - Look Out Clem! ACT’s Ken Shirley Eyes Up Tamaki - Bush’s UK Talkfest Outlines ‘Pillars Of Peace’ - Gloved Ones Denies Child ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Wednesday, 19 November 2003, 3:40 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - Gregory Fortuin Caged For Ahmed Zaoui - Nurses To Deliver Petition To Parliament - UK: Over 700 Secret Service Officers Shield Bush - Hard News & More Is There - Stateside: Arnold Volksenegger Is Growing On Rosalea - Meditations ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Tuesday, 18 November 2003, 3:38 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - Brownlee New Deputy Leader Of National Party - Goff Welcomes EU Base In New Zealand - UN: A Chaotic Iraq Not In anyone’s Interests - Hard News Is There! - Military Families With Loved Ones in Iraq Oppose the War - William Rivers ... More >>
Image: Moving A Metal Mountain...
Tuesday, 18 November 2003, 2:53 pm | Alastair Thompson
Starting at 11 am this morning [18 November 2003], Macaulay Metals in a twenty four hour, seven day operation will be delivering their metal 'mountain' to the Port of Wellington for shipment to a steel mill in Korea. With the arrival of the ship 'Island ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Monday, 17 November 2003, 5:50 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Wins Highly Commended News Service Award - Huge Software Tax Avoidance Scheme Ruled A Sham - UN Aid Worker Killed In Afghanistan Bombing - Hard News & Much More Is There! - The Battle Of The Sports Utility Vehicles - Stateside: Distractions & ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Friday, 14 November 2003, 3:58 pm | Alastair Thompson
World Vision Launches AIDS Awareness Challenge - Press Council Rejects Palestine Human Rights Complaint Against Herald - Pacific Ecologist: Assessment Of Monsanto Soybeans Flawed - Reader Opinion: Don Brash Exploiter Of The Unemployed - Culture ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Thursday, 13 November 2003, 5:01 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - NIWA Cites Cook Strait As Alternative Electricity Source - Reciting Rhetoric: Powell Says Liberty Is Coming To Middle East - Hard News & More Is There? - Guest Opinion: Free Trade, Water & Thinking Locally - Neville Bennett: ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Wednesday, 12 November 2003, 5:02 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - The Deaths Of Saliel Aplin & Olympia Jetson - Orewa State Highway NZ's First State Toll Road - Two Injured In UN Compound Car Bomb Attack In Afghanistan - Stateside: Where Rosalea Attends A Green Festival - The Girl With The ... More >>
Test Test Test
Wednesday, 12 November 2003, 9:56 am | Alastair Thompson
Test Test Test Test Test Test Test Test Test Test Test Test Test Test Test Test Test Test More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Tuesday, 11 November 2003, 5:38 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - BNZ Announces $562 Million Profit - Unemployment Down To 4.4 - Israel Votes 12-11 Backing Prisoner Exchange With Hizbullah - Sludge Report: NZ's Official Oil Ostriches - Hard News & More Is There! - David Miller: The Changing ... More >>
Sludge Report #160: The Price Of Oil
Tuesday, 11 November 2003, 1:53 pm | C.D. Sludge
What's It Got To Do With The Price Of Oil? – MED Provides Quality Advice, Yeah Right! - Let Me Count The Ways This MED Forecast Is Moronic - An Extremely Simple Calculation - There Is 30-40 Years Worth Of Oil Left - What Does This Mean About The Price Of ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Monday, 10 November 2003, 3:10 pm | Alastair Thompson
PM Announces Four Weeks Annual Leave From 2007 - Overseas Land Ownership Review Ordered - UN Applauds Publication of Draft Afghanistan Constitution - Stateside: Hobson's Choice For America's Youth - Hard News & More Is There! - Scoop Review: ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops & Politics - Job Survey Win $$$
Friday, 7 November 2003, 4:01 pm | Alastair Thompson
Child Health Report Reveals Significant Unhealthy Trends - GE Onion Field Trial Flawed: GE Free - Hezbollah Warns All Means To Be Used To Free Palestinian Detainees - Hard News & More Is There! - Pacific Ecologist – New Issue & Editorial - Outsourcing ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Thursday, 6 November 2003, 5:08 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - Govt and PSA Sign Super Deal - NZ Implicated In Attack On Commonwealth Official - UN General Assembly Votes Overwhelmingly For USA TO End Cuba Embargo - Hard News Is There! - Meditations: Email Arrest Implications Cross The ... More >>
