Journalism in Portugal: interview with Miguel Crespo

“Technology made journalism more present in every day’s life”, researcher says. Photo: courtesy

Miguel Crespo is a Portuguese journalist, teacher and media researcher. He is a Ph.D. student in Communication Sciences and has a Master’s degree in Communication, Culture and Information Technologies from the University Institute of Lisbon (IUL).

Crespo coordinates IUL’s Master’s Program in New Media Management and is a professor in the University’s Master’s Programs in Communication, Culture and Information Technologies; New Media Management; Internet Studies. He also teaches in the Undergraduate Program in Journalism, and in the Undergraduate Program in Media Relations at IUL, at the Digital Marketing Undergraduate Program at the Faculty of Design, Technology and Communication (IPAM/IADE), at ETIC Creative School’s Communication Higher National Diploma courses, and coordinates the Online and Multimedia Journalism courses of the Professional Training Center for Journalists (Cenjor).

Crespo is a researcher at CIES-IUL and OberCom, the Portuguese Communication Observatory. He participates in many research projects in Portugal, as well as in many other countries. Crespo was also publisher and editor of a few Portuguese magazines and websites, and a journalist in daily newspapers such as Diário de Notícias and Público. Below is an interview with him about media and local journalism.