The Research Center for Media Practices and Skills (NIP-C@M) of the Department of Communication Sciences of the Autonomous University of Lisbon publishes, with the seal of Livros Horizonte, the work 'Specialty Journalism', coordinated by Jaime Lourenço.
The launch session is scheduled for October 2nd at Casa da Imprensa at 6 pm.
This work – divided into two volumes – is the first published in Portugal that is dedicated to reflecting on journalistic specializations, as well as contributing, as far as possible, to their solidification in newsrooms throughout the country.
A wide range of contributions on the various journalistic specializations was gathered, encompassing five variables: theme, medium, narrative, methodology and audience. The various chapters were written by leading academics and researchers from multiple Portuguese higher education institutions and journalists from a wide range of national media outlets. A wide range of different generations, geographies, studies and professional experiences.
The work has a foreword by Javier Fernández del Moral, professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, and an afterword by Ignacio Blanco Alfonso, professor at the CEU San Pablo University.
Alberto Arons de Carvalho
Alberto Arons de Carvalho holds a PhD in Communication Sciences from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade Nova de Lisboa and a degree in Law from the Faculty of Law of Lisbon.
He was a professor at the Department of Communication Sciences at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of Universidade Nova de Lisboa between 1981 and 1995 and between 2002 and 2016.
He held the positions of Secretary of State for Social Communication between 1995 and 2002 in the 13th and 14th constitutional governments and deputy to the Constituent Assembly and the Assembly of the Republic (1975 to 1983, 1987 to 1995 and 2002 to 2009).
He was a journalist at Republic (1974/5) and in The fight (1975/6) and member of the Press Council (in 1975 and between 1985 and 1988) and of the Information Councils for the Press (1977-80) and for the RDP (1980-84).
He was vice-president of the Regulatory Council of the ERC (Regulatory Entity for the Media) between 2012 and 2017. He is the author or co-author of eight books and numerous articles on topics related to the media.
Daniela Santiago
Daniela Santiago has been a journalist at RTP since 1996. She is RTP's Environment and Climate Action Editor.
From 2015 to 2021 she was a correspondent for public television and Antena 1 in Spain. She holds a Master's degree in Communication, Culture and Information Technologies from ISCTE, where she was a PhD candidate in Sociology, and obtained the title of Specialist in Journalism from the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon. She was a lecturer on the Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Journalism at the Escola Superior de Comunicação Social.
As a journalist, he covered important world events in different parts of the world. Academically, he is dedicated to studying the effects of media coverage in tragic situations.
Among several distinctions, she was awarded the Best Foreign Correspondent Award in Spain (International Journalism Awards 2021) by the Club Internacional de Prensa de España and the Asociación de Corresponsales de Prensa Extranjera, the 1st Prize for Journalism Human Rights and Integration 2008, awarded by the High Commissioner for Immigration and Intercultural Dialogue and the National Commission of UNESCO and the 3rd Centro Pinus Prize for Forest Journalism, 2022.
She is the author of four books: “The Perfect Storm – How the Far Right Returned to the Iberian Peninsula”; “The Comfort of Television – a different view of the Entre-os-Rios Tragedy”; “Hell in Paradise – 15 Days in Sri Lanka After the Tsunami” and “Leonor’s Caramel” (a children’s book in ink that was also printed in Braille). She is also the co-author of ten books, most of them academic.