{"id":604452,"date":"2026-09-18T16:20:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/604452\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T16:20:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:20:25","slug":"election-2026-investigative-journalist-nicky-hager-teases-new-book-weeks-before-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/604452\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2026: Investigative journalist Nicky Hager teases new book weeks before election"},"content":{"rendered":"

The settlement came almost four years after the publication of Dirty Politics<\/a>, which alleged the office of former Prime Minister Sir John Key ran a dirty tricks campaign through right-wing bloggers.<\/p>\n

Hager wrote the book after an anonymous source known only as Rawshark provided information said to have been hacked from Whaleoil blogger Cameron Slater. Police launched an investigation into the identity of Rawshark after Slater complained about being a victim of hacking.<\/p>\n

That complaint led detectives to search Hager\u2019s home on October 2, 2014, taking computers, paperwork and other material. In the settlement that followed, police apologised for a range of breaches of Hager\u2019s rights, including wrongly using an exception in the Privacy Act to access 10 months of Hager\u2019s banking data from Westpac<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis sends a vital message that people can share important information with journalists with confidence that their identities will be protected,\u201d Hager said. <\/p>\n

Hager\u2019s publications also include 2006\u2019s The Hollow Men and 2011\u2019s Other People\u2019s Wars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The settlement came almost four years after the publication of Dirty Politics, which alleged the office of former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2246,9218,2108,5903,2294,40392,42,38924,5844,117,43,20309,2887,73885,40,38,41,39,4518,1533],"class_list":["post-604452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-2246","tag-before","tag-book","tag-election","tag-general","tag-hager","tag-headlines","tag-investigative","tag-journalist","tag-new","tag-news","tag-nicky","tag-release","tag-teases","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-weeks","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}