Scoop (news website)
Encyclopedia
Scoop.co.nz is a New Zealand
internet
news site with a readership of 25,000 unique visitors a day, delivering 2,000,000 pages of information per month.
Scoop specialises in aggregating "raw news content" in the form of press releases, speeches and transcripts, while also providing deeper "magazine style" reporting and opinion pieces. Scoop aims to provide its readers with an informative slant on the political system. News channels include: Politics, World, Business, Science & Technology, Education, Health and Culture. Scoop is seen as a resource of the "unfiltered" news, with no journalist editing but instead being straight from the source. Employees at Scoop include ex- NZ Listener journalist Gordon Campbell and Selwyn Manning, who was instrumental in uncovering the injustice of the Ahmed Zaoui
case.
Scoop has won several awards for their work as a "community" news organisation. The site also received praise from the United Kingdom-based The Guardian
and media critics.
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
internet
Internet
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news site with a readership of 25,000 unique visitors a day, delivering 2,000,000 pages of information per month.
Scoop specialises in aggregating "raw news content" in the form of press releases, speeches and transcripts, while also providing deeper "magazine style" reporting and opinion pieces. Scoop aims to provide its readers with an informative slant on the political system. News channels include: Politics, World, Business, Science & Technology, Education, Health and Culture. Scoop is seen as a resource of the "unfiltered" news, with no journalist editing but instead being straight from the source. Employees at Scoop include ex- NZ Listener journalist Gordon Campbell and Selwyn Manning, who was instrumental in uncovering the injustice of the Ahmed Zaoui
Ahmed Zaoui
Ahmed Zaoui is an Algerian member of the Islamic Salvation Front. He arrived in New Zealand on 4 December 2002 where he sought refugee status. Objections from the Security Intelligence Service were withdrawn in September 2007, allowing him to remain in New Zealand.-Pre 1991:Ahmed Zaoui was born as...
case.
Scoop has won several awards for their work as a "community" news organisation. The site also received praise from the United Kingdom-based The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
and media critics.
External links
- Scoop - New Zealand News
- Scoopit - Independent news, your way: Scoop's new service combines news syndication, social bookmarking, blogging, and a democratic editorial system enabling Scoopit users to collaboratively submit and vote on articles. Scoopit was influenced by popular social news sites, Reddit and Digg.