Content creators and access to information
10 OCT | 17:00

Sepia-toned profile image highlighting the eye and ear of a person aspiring to be a journalist. Design: Napperon © Goethe-Institut Portugal

10.10 | 17:00 | Library | This session will be in Portuguese

Never before has there been so much talk about content producers versus journalists. Individual information providers are being listened to, and they have adapted better than traditional journalism to new forms of distribution, especially social media. On the other hand, with access to the profession becoming more difficult and the current precariousness, there are also many journalists leaving newsrooms. Attention and trust are shifting towards individual creators. What can we learn from this? Should we continue on the same path? Or should we reduce the distance between creators and traditional news organizations by promoting innovative collaborations? What effect will this have on co-production, distribution, and sustainability? What is the value of collaboration? And what rules should be followed?

A conversation with Joana Guerra Tadeu, Patrícia Barnabé and Ricardo Morais (CITCEM/LabCom), moderated by Catarina Carvalho (Mensagem de Lisboa).

Speakers

Joana Guerra Tadeu is a journalist, activist, and communications director at Don’t Skip Humanity, a content producer for collective action. She creates and presents projects to raise awareness about science and politics, combining culture, education, and mobilization. She shares resources in various media and formats, including on Instagram — where she manages a community of 35,000 people — in Notícias Magazine's Consultório de Sustentabilidade, and on the programs Verdes Anos (RTP3) and Ambientalista Imperfeita (Antena 3), both available on RTP Play.
Patrícia Barnabé was born in Lisbon a month before the Carnation Revolution and soon realized that activism, the arts, journalism, and the world would be her home. She studied at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, specializing in cultural writing, and began writing about lifestyle and the arts for various magazines and newspapers in the late 1990s, including Máxima magazine, where she wrote about psychology and fashion, and was then beauty editor for a health magazine. Invited to join the team that founded Vogue in Portugal, she headed its editorial office and culture section for 15 years. She spent three years as a travel journalist at UP magazine, during which time she returned to collaborate with Máxima magazine. Since 2020, she has been a freelance journalist and writes regularly for the Máxima and Must/Jornal de Negócios websites, for E (Expresso) and Ímpar (Público) magazines, as well as Portuguese Soul and the art magazine Pórtico, among many others.
Ricardo Morais is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto (FLUP). He holds a PhD in Communication Sciences and a Master's degree in Journalism from the University of Beira Interior (UBI). He is a Full Researcher at the Transdisciplinary Research Centre Culture, Space and Memory (CITCEM), where he is part of the Information, Communication and Digital Culture group, and a Collaborating Member of LabCom (UBI), where he belongs to the Communication and Media group. His research and publications have focused on journalism, new media, radio/podcasts, participation, and political communication, among other topics.