New Zealand Says It’s Not Spying on McClatchy Journalist

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By: Andrew Beaujon | Poynter

New Zealand’s government says it had “no evidence to support a report in the Sunday Star-Times newspaper that the military was assisted by the United States in monitoring the phone data of journalist Jon Stephenson, a New Zealander working for the U.S.-based McClatchy news organization,” Nick Perry reports.

The Sunday Star-Times of Auckland reported Sunday that the New Zealand Defense Force “obtained the metadata of cellular phones used by Stephenson’s ‘associates,’ but did not identify those individuals,” McClatchy’s Jonathan S. Landay writes.































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