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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