Scoop People

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Alastair Thompson

Co-Editor / Director / General Manager

Of Scottish and Irish extraction. 36 years old. Of Wellington New Zealand. Journalist with 17 years experience at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. Has been known to be mildly obsessive about foreign affairs and weather maps.

alastair@scoop.co.nz

Selwyn Manning

Co-Editor / Director / Chair of the Board

Raised and educated in south Auckland, New Zealand, Selwyn is a journalist with 16 years experience specialising in political and social advocacy reporting. Selwyn is also known to be rather passionate about foreign affairs, humanitarianism, aircraft and Schaffer Hunds.

selwyn@scoop.co.nz

Lyndon Hood

Scoop Reporter

Lyndon Hood deals with politics as well as producing illustrations and satire. He contributes to the group weblog Fighting Talk.

lyndon@scoop.co.nz

Jackie Llewellyn

Scoop Assistant Reporter

Jackie Llewellyn is part of the Scoop engine-room and ensures our items and articles are published asap. Jackie also writes lifestyle pieces and has a passion for books.

jackie@scoop.co.nz

Finlay Thompson

Technical Manager / Director

A Dr of mathematics Finlay has had his Mathematics career interrupted to join the LAMP community and is presently working for Catalyst IT.

finlay@scoop.co.nz

Andrew McNaugton

Co-founder / Director

Co-founded Scoop in 1999, and contributed the custom software and server infrastructure which enabled it to get started. From 1999 through 2007 he was Scoop's principal technical worker. Andrew has more than 20 years of programming experience, and wrote his first HTML when there were fewer than 1000 pages on the World Wide Web and the internet was not yet available to the New Zealand public. Andrew lives in Hobart, Tasmania, where he is actively involved in the campaign to save Tasmania's old growth forests from logging.

andrew@scoop.co.nz

Miles Thompson

Occasional Technical Assistant

A relationship management expert & dot-commer of late 90s vintage, Miles Miles recently returned to New Zealand after a stint working in New York.

miles@mail.com

Ian Llewellyn

Shareholder

A reporter for the New Zealand Press Association's Press Gallery team. With 20 years experience in journalism, Ian was a founding director of Scoop but is no longer directly involved.