[1] The website publishes many submitted news and press releases due to their permissive policy.

Their website states: "If it's a press release issued in New Zealand, is legible, legal, sane, not hateful and not defamatory we will most probably publish it.

As of March 2012, the website claimed to receive 246,500 visitors and 614,500 page impressions per month.

[citation needed] It was established in 1999 by Andrew McNaughton, Ian Llewellyn and Alastair Thompson.

[5] Alastair Thompson resigned as Scoop's chief executive and editor on 15 January 2014 after it became known that he was to be the general secretary of the Internet Party.