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The Scoop Foundation Turns Two
The Scoop Foundation Turns Two
The second year birthday
for the Scoop Foundation for Public Interest comes up at the
end of September. By then we will have recovered from
frenetic election excitement but will we have a new
Government? It’s looking like a close run, with MMP to the
fore.
Election years sharpen the need for independent, accurate and honest news in New Zealand, and www.scoop.co.nz has risen to that challenge in 2017, supported by the Foundation. This was a year for the website to flourish, with initiatives that include:
• A refreshed and redeveloped website was
launched in May
• A series of HiveMind online debates
have taken place using the artificial intelligence software
Pol.is.
• We also published numerous related articles
including a review by Alison McCulloch of a paper by AUT’s
construction industry expert professor John
Tookey.
• Subsequent HiveMind’s have covered
approaches to freshwater and most recently one on the
Universal Basic Income has attracted the interest of
international researchers.
• The launch of Any Questions, a question and answer
website for people and organisations to ask questions of
party spokespeople.
• The launch of our Opening the Election page
• Scoop
live streamed the public lecture of Modern Monetary
Theorist Bill Mitchell when he was in New Zealand recently.
For the Foundation, this has been a consolidation year, focused on smoothing out some of the administration bumps, In particular, I am glad to announce that from September supporters of the Scoop Foundation have the option of making monthly donations, an option that many of you requested. Small amounts regularly is something many of us find easier to provide, rather an annual donation. And any small (or larger) donation is very welcome.
This option has been put in place through PressPatron – a NZ software developed by Wellingtonian Alex Clark. PressPatron is providing the same service to other news sites - and with IT support from our wholly owned subsidiary, Scoop Publishing Ltd. The Scoop Foundation depends on funding from readers and supporters.
We remain committed to the old maxim that freedom of choice in democracy rests on freedom from funding, bribes and influence, whether from corporates or political parties. An independent news media protects that freedom of choice.
Find out more from our Foundation page at https://foundation.scoop.co.nz.
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The purposes of the Scoop Foundation are to promote, encourage and generate funding for investigative and public interest journalism.
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