Book Presentation: *Digital Discontent: The Part of the Story That Had Yet to Be Told*.
- Date: Sept. 2, 2026 Time: 7:00 p.m. Location: School of Communication - Auditorium - 1185 Uruguay Ave.
Journalist and researcher Daniel Mazzone will present his book alongside journalists Leonardo Haberkorn and Andrés Danza.
The triple crisis of information, public discourse, and journalism. Historically, this subsystem helped shape public life without us even realizing it. That is why we fail to recognize just how crucial it has been to democratic life.
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Andrés, B.A. DanceHe is a Uruguayan journalist, writer, and professor with a bachelor’s degree in Social Communication from the Catholic University of Uruguay. He has worked at Búsqueda since 1996 and is currently its editorial director. He is the co-author of *Una oveja negra al poder*(A Black Sheep in Power), a book about José Mujica that has been translated into six languages and received the Libro de Oro Award in 2015.
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Leonardo, Technician HaberkornJournalist. He works at Teledoce and El Observador.
Since 1983, he has worked for publications such as Aquí, Punto y Aparte, Búsqueda, Tres, El País, Plan B, and El Espectador, among others. From 2000 to 2006, he founded and edited the Qué Pasa supplement for the newspaper El País.
He worked for Reuters and served as the Associated Press (AP)'s correspondent in Uruguay from 2013 to 2019.
His work has been included in anthologies of narrative journalism published in Chile, Mexico, Spain, England, and Poland. His columns and feature stories have been translated into English, Italian, Flemish, Polish, and Hebrew.
He published 17 books, all in the fields of nonfiction and investigative journalism. His book *Milicos y tupas* won the Bartolomé Hidalgo Prize and the Libro de Oro Award in 2011.
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Daniel MazzoneMaster’s degree in Journalism from the Universidad San Andrés (Buenos Aires). He worked for Uruguayan print media and was the first news editor of the digital edition of *El País* (1996–2005). Former academic coordinator of the Journalism program at the Universidad ORT Uruguay. Media researcher with a specific interest in the intersection of media, platforms, and LLMs with users.
His last two books: *Huffington Post vs. New York Times: What Is Online Journalism? * (2012) and *Lying Machines: "Fake News" and "Post-Truth"* (2018).
In 2017, he published the preface to *Ariel* by José E. Rodó. In 2023, he published *The Legacy of Ibero-America in Western Literature*, as a preface to the literature course taught by José E. Rodó in 1898, published by the National Archives of Colombia.
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