WELLINGTON (Scoop Media Services/Pacific Media Watch): Scoop Media Services has announced that experienced editor and investigative journalist Gordon Campbell will be taking the helm of the independent news website Scoop.co.nz from February.
"As a new company formed to give Scoop a new lease of life, Scoop Media Services couldn't be happier to welcome Gordon as our new editor," said Craig Pellett, the chair of the board overseeing the company.
"Gordon's strengths as a highly regarded journalist are well known. In terms of Scoop he has been a mainstay of almost all of its original content in recent years.
"He is extremely well placed to bring about a new direction and higher profile for the overall quality of content on the site, and its capacity to offer a spectrum of voices on issues of the day.
"Gordon has the full backing of the board and will initially be focusing his energies on developing a team of editorial contributors to enrich Scoop's scope and increase its readership," said Pellett.
"A well planned approach will reinforce Scoop's established presence as a leading home for independent journalism and the aggregation of media statements. These are changes that will gather pace through the remainder of 2014".
In his Scoop column today, Campbell wrote:
Two weeks ago, I wrote a column about the involvement of Alastair Thompson, Scoop’s founding editor, with Kim Dotcom’s Internet Party. The errors of judgement made at the time have been amply canvassed in this column and elsewhere. Those mistakes were partly a by-product of one head wearing too many hats – in itself, a reflection of the kind of economic pressures impacting on Internet journalism.
Those conflicts of interest have been sorted out, and Scoop’s lines of editorial and business responsibility are now very clear and transparent. Alastair Thompson has resigned from the Internet Party, but will have no further role in the editorial output of Scoop.
Instead, Al will be bringing his experience and expertise in net commerce directly to Scoop via Craig Pellett, the CEO of Sublime Group, Scoop’s new majority shareholder.The editorial content of Scoop will become my responsibility. From today, I will be Scoop’s editor.
Gordon Campbell's column on the editorial changes
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