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Scoop Images: Jim Sutton And Charlene Barshefsky

Friday, 23 June 2000, 11:38 am
Article: Alastair Thompson

NZ Minister of Trade Negotiations Jim Sutton and Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky, US Trade Representative, meeting in Washington.

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Alastair Thompson

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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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