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When a lobbyist jumps the species barrier into journalism
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Here’s this morning’s top news from around Aotearoa and elsewhere about our political economy around housing, climate and poverty.
* The Lead: New Zealand’s most prominent lobbyist and former National Party staffer, Matthew Hooton, has been named to edit the Capital’s daily newspaper and New Zealand’s longest-running Sunday newspaper.
* The Sidebar: Hooton was a prominent back-room figure in Nicky Hager’s books about political influence and skulduggery on the right of politics, Hollow Men and Dirty Politics…
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