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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 81]
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Monday, 7 October 2002, 3:36 pm | Alastair Thompson
Big News: Selling Sex Law Reforms - Worker’s Hero Poised To Win Brazilian Elections - US Elections 2002: Why Voters Are Like Salmon - Images: Our Place Hosts The Arms Industry - Pokies Are Not Presbyterian - GM Corn Test Results Released - UQ Wire: ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Friday, 4 October 2002, 4:41 pm | Alastair Thompson
Keith Rankin: Truth, Lies & The Internet - Hurricane Lili Arrives In Louisiana - Naked in Nuhaka: Remembering Burning Man - Scoop Images: Being Berkeley - The Real Deal: What Makes A Good Woman - Scoop Was In The House - Farewell Mr Poi E More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Thursday, 3 October 2002, 3:28 pm | Alastair Thompson
TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS Scoop Is In The House Bugbear Virus Epidemic Supercomputer Weather: In Isidore’s Wake Comes Lili Julie Symons: Reinventing Oneself In Geneva, Or Not ZZZZZzzzzzt Scoop Has Feedback Guest Opinion: Maximism Is Not Marxism Leaky Home ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Wednesday, 2 October 2002, 3:08 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - Mediation Service For Leaky Homes - Scoop Editorial: Who Is Our Enemy? - Point Of View: Drug Dealing In The Schoolyard - Leukaemia Lifeline - NZ Interest Rates No Longer Rising - US Elections: Nailbiting Over The US Senate ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Tuesday, 1 October 2002, 4:45 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - Transgenic Cattle Given Green Light - Louis Vuitton Cup 2002 – 2003 Kicks Off - LV Cup: Kayak Picket For Nuclear Challenger - UQ WIRE SPECIAL: Who is Delmart "Mike" Vreeland? More >>
Scoop Editorial: Hold The Line
Tuesday, 1 October 2002, 4:37 pm | Alastair Thompson
General acceptance by a society of the Rule of Law is probably the principle ingredient in defining what a civilised society is. Unfortunately however many law makers in the United States appear not to understand this. Either that or they have forgotten ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Monday, 30 September 2002, 4:03 pm | Alastair Thompson
Dunne Wants Nandor’s Head - Howard’s End: ACC Situation Normal - AFU - ZZZZZzzzzzt Scoop Has Feeback - UQ Wire: George Bush’s Least Impressive 20 Minutes - The Real Deal: Who Want’s To Be President? - Warriors Through To The NRL Grand Final - US ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Friday, 27 September 2002, 3:44 pm | Alastair Thompson
Countdown To War: The Democrat’s Perfect Storm - Supercomputer Weather: From Merida With Rain - Keith Rankin: Helen’s New Big Brother - Naked In Nuhaka: The Rock - NZ’s Biggest Company Changes Owners - NZ Growing Faster Than Thought - New Advice To Long ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Thursday, 26 September 2002, 3:55 pm | Alastair Thompson
Saving Fox Hunting And England’s Countryside - UQ Wire: Biowarfare Compulsory Vaccination Plans - ZZZZZzzzzzzt Scoop Has Feedback - Californian Judges Who Donate To The Republican Party - US Nuclear Test Tomorrow - Internet Censorship Call In Lead Up To OZ WTO ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Wednesday, 25 September 2002, 4:43 pm | Alastair Thompson
Welcome To PAX Americana - Why The UK Should Attack Iraq – Tony Blair’s Dossier - Sludge Report: How Much Oil Is There Left? - Stateside: The Origins Of The American Spirit - Point Of View: Animal Anima - UQ Wire: The World Must Stand Up To George ... More >>
Sludge Report #141 – Discussing Oil With The Beeb
Tuesday, 24 September 2002, 5:03 pm | C.D. Sludge
NOTE: Authors of this report will be anonymous and wide ranging, and occasionally finely balanced. Indeed you are invited to contribute: The format is as a reporters notebook. It will be published as and when material is available. C.D. Sludge can ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Tuesday, 24 September 2002, 3:40 pm | Alastair Thompson
A Coup Against The International Rule Of Law - David Miller: Youth Drinking - Phil Goff Responds To Operation Murder The Peace - Protest Today Against Ngawha Prison - Scoop Satire: Not So Pure New Zealand - Transcript Of Steven Gray & Bill Hastings ... More >>
Poll Watch: NZers Overwhelmingly Back UN On Iraq
Monday, 23 September 2002, 6:08 pm | Alastair Thompson
According to a TV3/NFO poll published this evening New Zealanders are overwhelmingly against military action against Iraq without UN approval. More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Monday, 23 September 2002, 3:55 pm | Alastair Thompson
German Greens Key To Schroeder’s Razor Thin Election Victory - The Real Deal: Austin Fitts Takes On The $64 Question - Israel Launches Operation Murder The Peace - Scoop Feedback: One Rule For Iraq, Another For Israel - Stateside Election Special: Campaign ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Friday, 20 September 2002, 5:35 pm | Alastair Thompson
Hard News Is Here - For The Last Time - Scoop Feedback: Bullying The Opposition - What You Need To Know About Coffee - Kim Webby Personal Grievance - Keith Rankin: Incremental versus Excremental Economics - Naked In Nuhaka: Missing Spring - The ... More >>
Inaugural Trans Tasman Masters Games Launched
Friday, 20 September 2002, 11:47 am | Alastair Thompson
Today at a function at the Spencer on Byron Hotel, George Wood, Mayor of North Shore City and Glenn Thornton, Director of the Newcastle and Hunter Events Corporation announced the launch of a unique new event on the Auckland sporting calendar - the ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Thursday, 19 September 2002, 4:51 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - Clark Trying To Slug Dubya Both Ways - ANZ fined $7,500 for misleading MasterCard offer - New Zealand ought to say sorry to East Timorese - Scoop Investigation: Clinton’s Darkest Moment Revisited - Why We Don’t Like Bill ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Wednesday, 18 September 2002, 4:58 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - National & Greens Call For SAS Info - Bill Rowling Was Not In The Dark On Timor - GM Crops No Economic Boon - New Report - Leaky Building Crisis - Bush’s Secret Plan For World Domination – In Lurid HTML More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Tuesday, 17 September 2002, 4:31 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - Countdown To War: Iraq Accepts Weapons Inspections - IRAQ DECISION REACTION: - United Future Flexes Its Freedom - Petrol Up Another 2 Cents – BP Cites Global Insecurity - Cullen And RBNZ’s New Inflation Agreement - UQ Wire: ... More >>
NewsFlash: Iraq Accepts UN Weapons Inspectors
Tuesday, 17 September 2002, 11:10 am | Alastair Thompson
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has just announced that Iraq has written to him saying it is willing to accept the return of weapons inspectors unconditionally. More >>
