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Joseph Cederwall
Freelance Writer
Joseph is Co-editor of Scoop and Editor of The Dig. Joseph is an editor, writer, and social entrepreneur with an interest in open and participatory media and business models. In 2019, Joseph founded The Dig. Joseph has qualifications in law and anthropology and previously practiced as a lawyer in the Immigration and Human Rights field. He is now applying this background to the practice of ‘reverse anthropology' using a framing of indigenous worldviews to deconstruct the dominant worldviews and cultural myths of Western society. Joseph has a longstanding interest in the commons, participatory democracy, social justice, and human rights. He was a co-founder, and founding Director of ActionStation Aotearoa - now NZ's largest online movement-building organisation. Joseph is also a Director of Freerange Publishing Cooperative, and a long-time contributor to Enspiral - a non-hierarchical collective of freelancers and ventures dedicated to collaborative business practice and purpose-driven enterprise. He lives in beautiful Taranaki and enjoys watersports, permaculture, tai chi, music, and being in nature.
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Transitional Energy: A Better Future For Energy In Aotearoa, NZ
Wednesday, 7 October 2020, 12:24 pm | Joseph Cederwall
Can a steady supply of energy be taken for granted while maintaining the lifestyles and protecting the natural abundance we value as a nation? More >>
What Do We Mean By Transitional Democracy?
Thursday, 20 August 2020, 12:53 pm | Joseph Cederwall
What do we mean when we talk about ideas like ‘Transition’, ‘Democracy’, and ‘Citizenship’ of Aotearoa? How might we upgrade our framework for understanding these concepts to be more fit for purpose? More >>
Government Upgraded: Democracy 2.0 In Aotearoa?
Thursday, 20 August 2020, 12:30 pm | Joseph Cederwall
We are in need of a new shared understanding, or ‘grand narrative’ for democracy. So what might a new fit-for-purpose system worthy of the definition of ‘Democracy 2.0’ look like in Aotearoa? More >>
Analysis: Dotcom Appeal Dismissed
Thursday, 28 November 2019, 5:41 pm | Joseph Cederwall
Kim Dotcom’s Appeal against the decision allowing the GSCB to withold information as to communications intercepted by them has been dismissed by the Court of Appeal of New Zealand . More >>
Hope For Nature: A New Deal For The Commons
Thursday, 14 November 2019, 10:10 am | Joseph Cederwall
To fully understand the biodiversity crisis and explore what comes next, it is necessary to address this mind-virus at the heart of our modern civilisation – the dominion worldview. More >>
20 Years of the Scoop Information Ecosystem
Thursday, 6 June 2019, 2:32 pm | Joseph Cederwall
Scoop celebrates its 20th anniversary this month. Scoop.co.nz is now the longest continuous running digital-only, free, public-facing news website in NZ. Founded in June 1999 - Scoop is slightly older than Stuff and slightly younger that the NZ ... More >>
Learnings From CJR Analysis of Post-ChCh Media
Tuesday, 2 April 2019, 2:11 pm | Joseph Cederwall
US Media Watchdog Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) has recently published a report titled: "What we learned from analyzing thousands of stories on the Christchurch shooting" More >>
WOMAD 2019 Review, Photos and Videos
Friday, 29 March 2019, 1:05 pm | Joseph Cederwall
Last week, I reflected on the incongruity, and the joy of being at WOMAD whilst processing the tragic events of Friday 15 March . More than any event I have been involved in, WOMAD makes it acutely clear to me how connected we all are. Humans ... More >>
Love Will Lead Us Home
Wednesday, 20 March 2019, 4:33 pm | Joseph Cederwall
This is not a music review. Ostensibly it was to be a review of the many amazing international acts from a diversity of cultural backgrounds who converged on Taranaki’s stunning Pukekura park for WOMAD 2019 in a celebration of a diverse world of music ... More >>
News Deserts: The Death March of Local Journalism
Wednesday, 13 March 2019, 3:38 pm | Joseph Cederwall
The death march of local journalism looks set to continue in 2019… and you best believe it is a very real problem for our democracy. Diverse and robust local media coverage is highly important to a democratic society, yet the corporate media sector ... More >>
Journalism Has a Problem - It’s Called Capitalism!
Tuesday, 5 March 2019, 4:28 pm | Joseph Cederwall
Much has been written of late about the ‘problems’ of the Journalism industry and in particular the impacts of consolidation and layoffs on local news coverage. However, I would propose that to the extent that Journalism does in fact have a problem, ... More >>
Venezuela; Oil, Neoliberalism and White Supremacy
Wednesday, 27 February 2019, 3:25 pm | Joseph Cederwall
However, one dresses it in misinformation and sanctimonious Media outrage, by any objective sense, what is happening right now in Venezuela is still a coup . Recent open threats of US military intervention from the Trump Administration mask the fact ... More >>
Niko Ne Zna - NZ’s Own Balkan Brass Bandits
Friday, 22 February 2019, 1:22 pm | Joseph Cederwall
Wellington Balkan Brass Band Niko Ne Zna (Serbo-Croatian for ‘Nobody Knows’) are playing WOMAD this year for the first time. I have known band leader and soprano saxophonist, Frankie Curac, since the band started about ten years ago. He is a bit ... More >>
NZSO Plays Bach and Ellington
Friday, 15 February 2019, 5:32 pm | Joseph Cederwall
The NZSO’s Shed Series returned for 2019 with the aptly titled REBIRTH at Shed 6 on Friday 8th. This theme dealt with the way in which music constantly evolves and changes, with styles and musical periods reborn in completely new and different ... More >>
The End of ‘Objectivity’ in Journalism
Friday, 15 February 2019, 12:33 pm | Joseph Cederwall
2019 looks like it might well be another really bad, terrible, not so good year for the traditional journalism model globally. Already in January three leading US digital outlets—BuzzFeed, the Huffington Post, and Vice announced layoffs that have left ... More >>
Anarchy and Romance: Shantel & The Bucovina Club Orkestar
Thursday, 7 February 2019, 9:56 am | Joseph Cederwall
Shantel (Stefan Hantel) is a German DJ, producer and Band leader who was instrumental in the renaissance of Eastern/Gypsy music as a popular form in Europe and globally in the 90's and early 2000's. He is bringing his live band ‘Shantel & The Bucovina ... More >>
The Gili Islands: a community earthquake recovery effort
Wednesday, 16 January 2019, 4:09 pm | Joseph Cederwall
Joseph Cederwall travelled to the Gili Islands in October 2018 to talk to locals about their experiences of the event and witness the impact and the rebuild efforts on this unique ecotourism destination. More >>
Viva Scoop 3.0! Rounding Up 2018 and Looking Ahead
Friday, 14 December 2018, 11:42 am | Joseph Cederwall
2018 has been quite a year for Scoop. We are so thrilled to have successfully met the funding target for the first stage of the ‘Scoop 3.0’ plan raising $36,000. This means we can now proceed with the planning phase for the delivery of this bold ... More >>
Why We Care about Scoop, and Why We Think You Should
Tuesday, 27 November 2018, 12:09 pm | Joseph Cederwall
Why We Care about Scoop, and Why We Think You Should By Scoop Co-Editor Joseph Cederwall More >>
Scoop Section Sponsorships: An Opportunity to Collaborate
Wednesday, 21 November 2018, 4:47 pm | Joseph Cederwall
Scoop has just launched Section Sponsorships on the top three sections of Scoop.co.nz. This is a new way for like-minded organisations to gain brand exposure to Scoop’s high value audience of 500,000 monthly readers, and ensure the survival of Scoop’s ... More >>
