Top 5 Scoop Press Releases Week To 16th August 2014

Monday, 18 August 2014, 5:10 pm
Article: Scoop Insights

The following five press releases were the top performing press releases (by NZ page view numbers) according to Google Analytics on Scoop for the seven days to 16th August 2014.

1. The TPPA’s Dirty Little Secret: How US could write NZ’s Laws

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1408/S00194/the-tppas-dirty-little-secret-how-us-could-write-nzs-laws.htm

A new website launched today ( http://tppnocertification.org/ ) has exposed what University of Auckland law professor Jane Kelsey calls ‘the dirty little secret of the TPPA’.

2. Unprecedented 0% Pest Survival Rate in DOC Rat Control Trial

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1402/S00802/unprecedented-0-pest-survival-rate-in-doc-rat-control-trial.htm

In wonderful news for birdlife, NZ developed automatic rat traps have totally eliminated predator rat populations during large-scale Department of Conservation (DOC) trials in native New Zealand bush.

3. Jamie Whyte won the minor leaders debate

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1408/S00145/jamie-whyte-won-the-minor-leaders-debate.htm

By calling out the minor party leaders as communists over the sale of the Lockinver Station, Jamie Whyte won yesterday's minor leaders' debate on The Nation.

4. Nicky Hager book launched today

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1408/S00207/nicky-hager-book-launched-today.htm

Nicky Hager’s new book was launched at 5pm today at Unity Books in downtown Wellington. The book is not about the Snowden documents; Mr Hager said publicly months ago that he was not writing a book on that subject. Today’s book follows on from his earlier ...

5. iPredict 2014 Election Update: Internet-Mana to have 5 MPs

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1408/S00183/ipredict-2014-election-update-internet-mana-to-have-5-mps.htm

For the first time, the 7000 registered traders on New Zealand’s online predictions market, iPredict, are picking the Internet-Mana Party to win five seats at the next election, bringing Chris Yong into parliament along with Hone Harawira, Laila Harre...

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