Alastair Thompson is the editor and co-founder of Scoop.
Alastair Thompson's on again-off again political career has landed him back at Scoop, the news website he abandoned to join Kim Dotcom's political party.
New cornerstone shareholders Sublime Media - led by Selwyn Pellet and his brother Craig - today detailed their 60 per cent stake in Scoop, with the
Thompson family interests retaining 20 per cent.
Thompson - formerly a member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery - today broke his silence after leaving the Internet Party last week and confirming he was in talks with Sublime about resuming some role at Scoop.
Thompson apologised to friends and family for the way he handled the transition between Scoop and the party role, which was leaked to the right wing blogger Cameron Slater.
Thompson was embarrassed by the revelations, and criticised by his business partner Selwyn Pellet.
Thompson said: "I owe an apology to many people close to me, especially my wife, my family and colleagues and employees at Scoop, and to my new investors for allowing the situation that evolved rapidly and unexpectedly at the end of last year, which brought about the conflict that my resignation from the Internet Party is to resolve.
