Circa
| Industry | Mobile news |
|---|---|
| Notable employee | [[anthony-derosa|Anthony DeRosa]] (Editor-in-Chief) |
Circa was a mobile news startup where Anthony DeRosa served as Editor-in-Chief. Circa atomized news stories into discrete, updateable facts — a departure from the traditional article format that influenced how a generation of publishers approached mobile-first storytelling.
Technical approach
DeRosa worked with Circa's developers to identify potential signals its content management system could scrape from public data sources, including significant Wikipedia edits, rapidly engaging Twitter posts, and tracking of newsworthy accounts.
Circa's "atomized," continuously updated story format put into practice an idea DeRosa had written about as Process Journalism — treating a story as something that evolves transparently over time rather than a fixed, finished article.