Scoop.co.nz is a New Zealand internet news site with a readership of 25,000 unique visitors a day, delivering 2,000,000 pages of information per month.[1]
Scoop specialises in aggregating "raw news content" in the form of press releases, speeches and transcripts, while also providing deeper "magazine style" reporting and opinion pieces. Scoop aims to provide its readers with an informative slant on the political system. News channels include: Politics, World, Business, Science & Technology, Education, Health and Culture. Scoop is seen as a resource of the "unfiltered" news, with no journalist editing but instead being straight from the source. Employees at Scoop include ex- NZ Listener journalist Gordon Campbell and Selwyn Manning, who was instrumental in uncovering the injustice of the Ahmed Zaoui case.
Scoop has won several awards for their work as a "community" news organisation. The site also received praise from the United Kingdom-based The Guardian[2] and media critics.[3]