Media

Text: Chris Graeme; Photo: Fernando Bento There’s a well-worn truism that is taught at media and journalism colleges that “if it’s fake news it’s not news, and if it’s news it’s not fake.” But [...]

From the first edition back in 2000 to the present day, Open Media CEO Bruce Hawker tells the story of the group’s flagship magazine over the last 25 years  When our Essential magazine concept [...]

Portugal’s news agency Lusa is to be fully nationalised after years of struggling to remain economically viable because of problems with news outlets not paying their bills. For example, last [...]

The Portuguese magazine group Trust in News, which owns the current affairs magazine Visão and 15 other titles, risks facing closure after a company rescue and restructuring plan was not approved [...]

The Portuguese broadcaster RTP plans to offer voluntary early retirement packages to 250 staff as part of a restructuring plan. But the plan can only go forward if the government gives the green [...]

Cybercrime not only affects Portugal’s businesses, costing companies millions each year; it has the potential to destroy lives as the guest speaker at a lunch-debate organised by the [...]

The Portuguese TV and news channel SIC is to raise €30 million from a four-year bonds issue offering investors a dividend of 5.95%. The bonds issue linked to sustainability, SIC 2024-2028, is [...]

The Portuguese media group Medialivre, which has the newspaper Correio de Manhã and CMTV, is to launch a new news channel. According to TV commentator, lawyer and former PSD party leader Luís [...]

Troubled Portuguese media group Global Media, which has the flagship newspaper Diário de Notícias, is to make 17 redundant in a major restructuring to stem losses of up to €700,000 per year. [...]

A journalists’ union in Portugal has asked the Portuguese State Procurator’s Office (PGR) to step in and investigate alleged illegal acts as part of an overall financial crisis engulfing one of [...]