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!!!!!SCOOP IS BORN!!!!!
Wellington June 10 1999
Alastair Thompson, Andrew McNaughton and Ian Llewellyn are pleased to announce the arrival of Scoop, the information station where you can get tomorrow's news today.
Today is a happy moment in cyberspace. A moment of new beginnings. We look forward to the prospect of delivering a quality news service to Scoop readers.
Kia Kaha
The Scoop Team...
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.
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