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Editor’s Note: Encyclo has not been regularly updated since August 2014, so information posted here is likely to be out of date and may be no longer accurate. It’s best used as a snapshot of the media landscape at that point in time.

Circa is a mobile-only app for reading news that presents stories as collections of facts from various sources.

For its focus on presenting news the way readers want it on their phones—in short chunks, added to as a story changes—Circa has been hailed as an example of the “post-article” news world. Its minimalist design breaks stories up into pieces easily viewable on a phone screen. Users can follow stories of interest and receive updates as new facts, statistics, or images are added. Circa relies heavily on aggregation while using editors to string together the content.

The app was founded by Cheezburger Network’s Ben Huh and launched in October 2012. It released an updated focused on breaking news a year later.

By June 2013, the company employed 14 people producing 40 to 60 stories every day.

Peers, allies, & competitors:

Summly, Storify, Quartz, Flipboard, Upworthy

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April 23, 2024 / Siwei Lyu

Deepfake detection improves when using algorithms that are more aware of demographic diversity — Deepfakes — essentially putting words in someone else’s mouth in a very believable way — are becoming more sophisticated by the day and increasingly hard to spot. Recent examples of deepfakes include Taylor Swi...

April 22, 2024 / Sophie Culpepper

What it takes to run a metro newspaper in the digital era, according to four top editors — AUSTIN — In the expansive, fraught, and lively debates raging today about what the future of local news can and should look like, a vision of news as a nonprofit public good is increasingly popular among pioneering jo...

April 22, 2024 / Andrew Deck

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Primary author: Sarah Darville. Main text last updated: June 13, 2014.

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