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OjoPúblico

OjoPúblico is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand OjoPúblico rather than just read about it. In short: OjoPúblico is a Peruvian investigative journalism website founded in 2014 by journalists Oscar Castilla Contreras, Nelly Luna Amancio, David Hidalgo and Fabiola Torres, as well as the programmer Antonio Cucho. It investigates issues concerning human rights, corruption, drug trafficking, environment, health and transparency, among others.

Key takeaways

OjoPúblico belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect OjoPúblico to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of OjoPúblico from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

OjoPúblico is a Peruvian investigative journalism website founded in 2014 by journalists Oscar Castilla Contreras, Nelly Luna Amancio, David Hidalgo and Fabiola Torres, as well as the programmer Antonio Cucho. It investigates issues concerning human rights, corruption, drug trafficking, environment, health and transparency, among others.

Organization OjoPúblico is a nonprofit journalistic organization based in Lima. The organization holds goals of promoting democracy, transparency, accountability and access to public information. It runs the OjoBiónico fact-checking page. It also promotes investigative journalism and the training for reporters with OjoLab.

Work OjoPúblico's series on illegal gold mining in South America was translated and reposted by Insight Crime, an online publication on organized crime in South America.

Panama Papers

OjoPúblico is one of the news organizations participating in the Panama Papers investigation into the data leaked from the Mossack Fonseca law offices. The news outlet also reported as part of the Panama Papers investigation that Nicolás Lúcar and his wife Frances Crousillat, the producers of the talk show Señora León featuring Mexican actress and singer Laura León, had opened an offshore company to avoid taxes in Peru. OjoPúblico also discovered as part of the Panama Papers investigation that Mossack Fonseca counted among its clients Ment Dijkhuizen Cáceres Floor, a Peruvian of Dutch descent who had been sentenced to 25 years in prison for money laundering following the seizure of 1.6 tons of cocaine in the Netherlands. Dijkhuizen had already fallen under suspicion and been questioned by the Peruvian drug police, (Dirandro), in connection with 200 kg of cocaine discovered in a 2003 shipment from his asparagus enterprise to a Spanish port. Massack Fonseca helped him to create an elaborate network of shell companies.

Awards Best investigation of the year, Data Journalism Awards 2015, organized by the Global Editors Network (GEN) Angel Escobar Jurado Journalism and Human Rights Award, presented on December 8, 2015, by the National Human Rights Coordinator (CNDDHH ) Third Place in 2016 Latin American Awards for Investigative Journalism, granted by Ipys and Transparency International 2017 Excellence in Journalism Award by the Inter-American Press Society

References

External links Official website

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with OjoPúblico

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what OjoPúblico claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to OjoPúblico before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about OjoPúblico ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of OjoPúblico

In research: OjoPúblico appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses OjoPúblico in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: OjoPúblico is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Data journalism, Gold mines in Peru, Human rights in Peru, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for OjoPúblico outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study OjoPúblico in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what OjoPúblico means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain OjoPúblico out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is OjoPúblico in simple terms?

Why does OjoPúblico matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study OjoPúblico?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on OjoPúblico.