'Data Ninjas' Help Vocativ Journalists Mine the Deep Web
Getting to the bottom of the “unindexed, un-Google-able Web” (a.k.a. deep Web) is a time-consuming, multilingual operation. To support the efforts of journalists in that direction at Vocativ, the company relies on a half-dozen specialists it likes to call “data ninjas.”
That tidbit and several others can be found in Fast Company writer Neal Ungerleider’s fascinating look at the two-year-old digital news agency. The company is headed by Scott Cohen, formerly digital executive editor of the New York Daily News:
Cohen says that the six “ninja” analysts currently at the company work with journalists on a 1.5:1
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