Duncan Garner recently wrote a story about an aggrieved property developer. The anonymous man, is apparently “scared” of council retribution if his details were published. Garner criticises the council the developer was dealing with but is mysteriously silent on details that would allow us to understand why the developer was building on a plot covered […]
On not reporting on greenhouse gas emissions
The government has made a decision not to report on New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions as part of the package of statistical environmental reporting for the period starting 2015. The new reporting regime was announced today by the Chief Executives of Stats NZ and the Ministry for the Environment respectively, having been vetted by the […]
Why Scoop is crucial to New Zealand’s democracy
I’ve supported Scoop’s crowd funding. Can you spare some cash to support Scoop as well? With almost completely foreign ownership of our newspapers, the loss of TVNZ7 and Heartland TV and the loss of nationwide broadcasting for Triangle TV in the last few years and Radio NZ having suffered 7 years of fixed budgets our […]
World leading research moves off shore because of TICSA
This month six of NZ’s universities are submitting their final bids for a share in the 2014 budget’s $28M of new funds for ICT graduate schools. According to Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce this initiative will connect tertiary education and industry to deliver more of the ICT skills New Zealand needs by lifting the training […]
Universities and Scoop’s Licencing.
In the National Business review last week a story covered Scoop Media’s innovative licencing arrangements, which have been in place for a number of years. Rather than a paywall that excludes everyone who cannot pay, Scoop’s licencing conditions make the extensive database of NZ and overseas news stories […]
How free is free speech? A conversation for Wellingtonians
Chief Human Rights Commissioner, David Rutherford will be in conversation with SATRS board member Noel Cheer on the limits to free speech Information from the St Andrews Trust for the Study of Religion and Society – The SATRS Conversations Flyer for free speech debate St Andrew’s on The Terrace, Tuesday 3 March 2015, 12:15pm – […]
News – make it ours! Crowd funding campaign
At the Democracy, Ethics and the Public Good Conference last year the state of the NZ media, including its foreign ownership and poor quality of coverage, was identified as one of three key problems in our democracy that needed to be urgently addressed. Scoop Media is part of the new media that has arisen to […]
The crisis in New Zealand’s civil justice system
Printed version Barrister Frances Joychild has given Public Good permission to re-publish her article which appeared last week on the Auckland District Law Society website and in other legal publications. Frances’ paper looks at the issue of fair access to representation in civil legal cases and her evidence demonstrates that the situation for civil litigants […]
Needed: a public survey on social attitudes
I’ve just come back from living in England for six months last year. During the time I was there they had the referendum on Scottish independence. It was generally a pleasure to witness the quality of debate in print and broadcast media. Now we know the result of the referendum and while it wasn’t a […]
Scoop’s Operation Chrysalis
Like all news media New Zealand’s independent Scoop Media is working through the challenges, and the opportunities, thrown up by a changing media landscape. To address these issues Scoop editor Alastair Thompson has launched a Operation Chrysalis – a public conversation about the state of New Zealand’s media. Further elements will be launched throughout the […]
Fanning the #StepitUp flame
Print version of post The last weekend of November saw a weekend conference take place in Auckland. Stepitup’s purposed was to build capacity, capability and new skills amongst progressive campaigners and organisers in NZ. The conference was based around “the simple idea that we can do more and win more through cooperation, sharing resources and […]
Christmas Quiz – Characteristics of enlightened leadership
Printed version of this post Amber Blanco White was a writer, feminist and scholar who was born in 1887 and raised in Christchurch until she moved with her family to England in 1896. Her parents were the New Zealand social reformer William Pember Reeves and feminist and socialist Maud. At Cambridge she founded the University’s […]
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