Scoop: the hard news

Wellington independent new-media news agency Scoop again makes international headlines for its principled media coverage. The Guardian applauds the “fiercely independent news agency’s” boldness during the recent Iraq war: “For several months, Scoop Media has been publishing the kind of graphic images you rarely see in mass circulation newspapers or on western television. And, until now, rarely on the internet.” Scoop is portrayed as a brave new-media guardian of the fifth estate, willing to look behind the strings, censorship, reader-friendly sanitised imagery, and propaganda prevalent in mainstream media.