Opening welcome

Welcome to the early beginnings of the Scoop Foundation Project.

The purpose of this initial site is to engage with you. Please do tell us what you think - your thoughts about the project will help shape it.

We are very keen, for example, to discuss the ideas behind charitable funding for media. Later today we will be launching the foundation at an event at AUT and this will be reported on Scoop.co.nz and Pacific.scoop.co.nz.

We would like people to sign-on either publicly or privately as “supporters” of The Scoop Foundation Project and this is a key objective over the next two months.

If you are happy about being publicly listed we will add you to the “Who’s behind this project page” section, a note stating your affiliation or areas of interest would be useful additional information.

Tonight’s official announcement is being held at 4.45pm at the Pacific Media Centre in the amazing new AUT Communications School.

And after the event the recipient of the inaugural $5000 Pacific Scoop 2013 scholarship/internship award will be revealed.

READ our opening media release: A New Foundation for Public Interest Journalism in New Zealand