In News We Must Trust ... Data

The crisis in data gathering and privacy is here but like using your mind to figure a puzzle it can be useful too.

Feb. 4, 2012 , New York, NY,Columbia School of Journalism , At an open program called "liberate the data", The Columbia School of Journalism opened its doors to journalists and data geeks. The Journalism Data Derby was held in one of the lecture halls.approximately 50 people attended.The video on our blog today shows one of the presentations from the crime group. There were 6-7 groups formed that took tasks on in Science, finance, crime, etc., Nujobi attended to observe and learn about the power of data collection and the newest trends in reporting from that data.

Since much of Law enforcement has historically relied on the investigative research of journlalists in the past and the fact that there is data on pretty much on everyone, since FaceBook google,linkedin ,and other social media engines collect every key stroke and track your every move on the internet. We thought we better get the story before the story gets us.

The process we observed while at Columbia was scraping, (taking data from html that was published on the internet), taking scanned physical documents and scanning them in and scraping data from those documents. Many merges of different forms of data were categorized and organized into what each team felt was a logical format. Interestingly data joined together could ever be complete particularly from event driven cases. It certainly seems that journalism has moved more towards legal procedure and presentation....

Data can reveal so much and is important in News, in a court of law, . Lets take a look at some typical data you can mine for information about crime.

Anthony Shadid, Nujobi's inspiration

Our small start-up Nujobi.com was created because we see how the News industry is under substantial pressure and being challenged by the "Free news" coming from twitter,facebook, and other social media sources. Even in NYC today there are a total of only 7 advertisements for writers and journalists and only 12 in TV/broadcasting. I would say that truth is in crisis as the media world adopts desktop distance reporting from social media.

Brunch this past Sunday was shared with a young female Reuters journalist from Egypt. Her stay in America is to gain education and to attract funding for her non-profit journalism organization. The non-profit is to serve as a training source for Egyptians desiring to learn journalism and to function as a News source from Egypt. We discussed the impact of the MONEY SUPPORT (non-profit versus market driven models)on the News and the idealogical differences relative to how the News should be reported. My goal was to recruit her as a potential founding journalist for Nujobi.com, Nujobi is marketplace for journalistic News and professional feature content. My intent was to convince her that journalists must be compensated by a free market system. She did not quite agree as it seems that big promises have been made to her from sources like ProPublica.org a non-profit investigative journalism organization.

Yesterday the world lost a superb Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Anthony Shadid. A journalist that took the risk of reporting and digging for the truth. He was a Lebanese American, Christian, a native of Oklahoma City, and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin- Madison. Shadid studied journalism and political science with Arabic language courses. He reported from most of the Middle East and the mystery of violence in the Islamic World. It seemed he was curious and aware at the same time

He was shot once while on assignment and kidnapped in Lybia just last year. He died from an asthma attack as reported by News sources. His books were controversial and may become the beginning ground laid to find a path to peace. His books will most likely now be studied much closer.

He worked for a number of free market publications like The New York Times, Boston Globe, and The Washington Post. His audience was able to get a view , his view, no agenda. He made a living as a reporter. He was paid to tell the story. he told it only after he paused and evaluated what he witnessed, in order to be accurate.

This is the type of journalist that the world needs and what the purpose of the Nujobi.com marketplace is. Nujobi.com will stay the course to enable more journalists to make a living from bringing the truth to the world. Even as the old model of journalism remains under pressure

Anthony Shadid returned to Lebanon to rebuild a home built by his Grandfather. House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East

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Huffington Post could but Nujobi will better

Did you ever wonder how as a start-up you can be laughed at one day by VC's and then see your competition do exactly what you are doing and be considered genius? Nujobi.com The News Business re-invented is red hot and we are here to capitalize.

Well let's just say reading about Arianna Huffington and her new streaming News show gave Nujobi a kick in the pants and at the same time a reason to continue on. We have been team building thus far, recently our meetings with seasoned digital space journalist and media veteran, had just dropped off as we were seeking to find someone that could be a CEO. We have been on the hunt, and still are, to find someone that is strong enough to tackle management of a company that serves Real News with no agenda. , the hunt continues. The past 4 days have been trying as we step up the search. We have heard it all including pitches from people in and outside the media world. Nujobi can work and will be very profitable.

We know that our direction and secret sauce are quite potent. Get people to report the News, give them a competitive marketplace to sell their content, and buy the best material to broadcast. Nujobi will be a media force in a short time. Arianna thinks the comments are the key and Nujobi believes in depth vetted reporting from a marketplace is better Real NEWS. Our technology offers a ripe opportunity to all those journalists and community news witnesses to tell the world the truth and get paid. That may be the major difference between what Huffington is doing and what Nujobi is doing. Besides we have no agenda except report the news of value and the real value is there, that's why the reporter was paid. The news beyond the streets, under the street, and the drama that has always moved humanity.

You see that is our goal and that is how Nujobi will truly profit. While we link Journalists and Publishers together we also have the the opportunity to get at the best News first at a fair price in our own marketplace.

The business of media is about influence from trust. The money is earned by proving the power of trust and loaning it out for fee.

Thank Goodness we spent the time and money filing for a patent on this process. Now all we need are the investors. Nujobi is seeking seed capital..Nujobi.com We can be profitable within a year.

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