"O Regresso do Jornalismo" - International Conference

Great Reporting in the Digital Age
Did great journalism die just because we invented the internet?

No. Digital platforms are the perfect place for great literary and investigative journalism projects, the perfect place for a nonfiction literature of reality. Multimedia is photography, video, sound, infographics, text, intermixed. All the means to aspire to a crucial end: lucid, brave and profound journalism. Throughout the world, journalists, editors, producers are
conducting experiments that are shifting the ways we do and consume journalism. What are the new research tools? The new narrative strategies? The new economic models? We've hosted some of the international and portuguese leading figures of this vanguard at the Escola Superior de Comunicação Social, in Lisbon.

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Adelino Gomes

Adelino Gomes was a radio (RDP and Rádio Renascença), TV (RTP) and press (Público) journalist for 42 years. Today, he is part of an investigative team at CIES-IUL. With the investigation Projecto Jornalismo e Sociedade, coordinated by Gustavo Cardoso, he has taken part in the initiative Para uma Carta de Princípios do Jornalismo na Era Internet (2011/2012). A partial adaptation of his PhD thesis in Sociology (ISCTE-IUL, 2011) was published as a book: Nos bastidores dos telejornais: RTP1, SIC e TVI (Tinta-da-China, 2012).

Alexandre Lucas Coelho

Alexandra Lucas Coelho writes for the portuguese newspaper Público since 2008. She’s traveled several times through the Middle East and Central Asia and recently she covered the revolution in Egypt. She was a correspondent in Jerusalem and is currently based in Brazil. Her journeys have helped her write: Oriente Próximo, Caderno Afegão, Viva México and Tahrir: Os Dias da Revolução. She’s also authored a novel: E A Noite Roda.

Amy O'Leary

Amy O'Leary is a digital journalist and reporter for The New York Times. Before this, she worked to integrate the newspaper's digital and print operations as a Deputy News Editor for the paper and before that managed breaking news and interactive features as a News Editor for NYTimes.com. Amy began as a multimedia producer for the paper, where her work was nominated for three Emmy awards.

Borja Echevarría

Borja Echevarría is the deputy executive editor of the Spanish newspaper El País. In 2010, he started leading the team that processed the newspaper transition to its digital version, helping El País to become the most-visited hispanic news site. Previously, Echevarría founded Soitu.es, a news start-up that received numerous honours including two Online News Association awards. With an 18-year career in journalism, that began in 1995, at El Mundo, Borja Echevarría spent last year as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard.

Cândida Pinto & Jorge Pelicano

Cândida Pinto studied Media at Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, and she’s a reporter at the portuguese TV channel SIC, where she now works as the Feature Article coordinator. She was also deputy director at the portuguese newspaper Expresso, and director of the portuguese TV channel SIC Notícias. As a reporter, Cândida Pinto has travelled to war zones like Afghanistan, Iraq, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Georgia, Lebanon and Libia. Her projects have been awarded with number of portuguese and international prizes.

Jorge Pelicano studied Communication and PR and has a master's degree in Communication and Journalism from Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra. He was a cameraman at SIC since 2001. In 2005, he made his debut filming documentaries with Ainda há pastores?, which won more than ten awards, both national and international. in 2009, he filmed Pare, Escute e Olhe, another awarded documentary. In 2012 he participated in the documentary series Momentos de Mudança at SIC. He is a documentary director since February 2013 at the producer Até ao Fim do Mundo.

Charles Homans

Charles Homans is the executive editor of The Atavist, as a digital publisher of narrative nonfiction. Previously he wrote for the Washington Post, the Economist, Atlantic and many other publications.

João Pina

João Pina is a portuguese photojournalist who has been developing his career mostly outside the country. His work has been published in several newspapers and magazines, such as the New York Times, The New Yorker, Time Magazine, Newsweek, Stern, GEO, El País, EPs, La Vanguardia, D Magazine, Io Donna Expresso and Visão. He published his first book in 2007 named Por Teu Livre Pensamento, about twenty five former portuguese political prisoners. In the last few years, João Pina has dedicated his time to an extensive project about the Condor Operation.

Joshua Hammer

Joshua Hammer spent eighteen years at Newsweek, first as a culture and business writer, then as Bureau Chief in Nairobi, Buenos Aires, Los Angeles, Berlin, Jerusalem and Cape Town, running one-man bureaus around the world. In 2006 Hammer left Newsweek and became an independent non-fiction writer. He is now a contributing editor at Smithsonian Magazine and Outside Magazine and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, and has written for a variety of other publications, including the New Yorker, National Geographic, Atlantic Monthly, Vanity Fair, and the Conde Nast Traveler. Hammer is the author of three books and is currently at work on a fourth, Taking Timbuktu, a non-fiction work about four characters caught up in Al Qaeda's takeover of northern Mali in 2012. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2004-2005.

Mark Kramer

Mark Kramer is Writer-in-Residence at Boston University, and directs their Power of Narrative conference each Spring. Between 2001 and 2007, he was founding director and writer-in-residence at Harvard University's Nieman Program on Narrative Journalism. His books include Invasive Procedures and Three Farms and three others. He's been published by the New York Times magazine, National Geographic and Atlantic Monthly, among others, and co-edited two textbooks on narrative non-fiction: Telling True Stories, and Literary Journalism.

Paulo Moura

Paulo Moura has written for the portuguese newspaper Público since its foundation. He was a US correspondent and editor of Público's sunday magazine, Pública. He was a war correspondent in places like Kosovo, Chechnya Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, Libya and Turkey. He is the author of several books, such as: Passaporte para o Céu, 1147: O Tesouro de Lisboa, O Fim das Miragens, O Segredo da Cartuxa as well as the biography Otelo, o Revolucionário.

Tiago Carrasco, João Fontes & João Henriques

Tiago Carrasco, press reporter, João Henriques, photojournalist, and João Fontes, cameraman, used to live between unemployment and precarious jobs until they decided to cross Africa by car, with the Football World Cup that took place in South Africa as their final destination. Their next project was to travel across the Arab Spring countries using public transportation. From Tunisia to Siria, the three reporters collected texts and images that granted them the winning project of last year’s Prémio Gazeta Multimédia. This year, the same project is one of the nominees for the international C21 Media award.

Travis Fox

Travis Fox is a reporter, director, editor, and producer. He was the first web video producer to win an Emmy. While with the Washington Post, Fox covered the biggest conflicts in the last decade, in Afghanistan, Iraq, Africa, Asia and South America. Today he works for FRONTLINE, a provocative documentary producer. Travis is considered a living legend of video report on the internet where he created a new language and showed us a new path to the future.

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