Meeting with media stakeholders in Lisbon

Redressing Radical Polarisation: Experiences and Initiatives from Media Practitioners

The event will be held in a hybrid format on Thursday, 5 September from 3 to 6:15 pm at the ISCTE (University Institute of Lisbon).

Programme

5 September
15:00 – 15:10	Opening Remarks María Luengo – Action Chair, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
15:10 – 15:30	Creating Deep and Meaningful Relationships with Readers: Why Media Have a Unique Opportunity to Engage in Depolarisation Work Sara Cooper – Head of Product, My Country Talks, ZEIT ONLINE, Germany
15:30 – 16:00	Q&A Session with Sara Cooper
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00	Discussion Panel Working Together to Knowledge Production and Exchange: Experiences and Initiatives from Media Practitioners Panellists: Vítor Gonçalves, editor and anchor of Grande Entrevista, RTP, Portugal Mónica Prado, Digital Area editor in chief, Antena 3 TV, Spain Raffaele Luise, dean of RAI Vatican correspondents, Italy Salomé Leal, editor, Filipe Pardal, chief operating officer, Polígrafo, Portugal Michaëla Cancela-Kieffer, Sciences PO Journalism School and Agence France Presse (AFP), France Panel moderator: Carlota Pombar, Equipo Europa, Spain
18:00 – 18:15	Concluding Remarks Gustavo Cardoso – Professor of Communication Sciences, Department of Sociology, ISCTE, Portugal

Biographies

Carlota Pombar

Carlota Pombar is a student from Galicia, currently in her final year of the Dual Bachelor in International Studies and Political Science at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Throughout these years, she has gained a robust academic foundation with a global outlook, having completed high school in the United States thanks to the Amancio Ortega Foundation scholarships and furthering her university studies at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) and Maastricht University (Netherlands).She has collaborated with organizations such as CEAR and ECA, and she currently serves as a spokesperson for Spain’s largest youth association, Equipo Europa. Starting in September, she will undertake an internship at the Office of the Secretary of State for the European Union.

Gustavo Cardoso

Gustavo Cardoso is a professor of communication sciences in the sociology department at Iscte-IUL and a researcher at CIES-Iscte. He directs the PhD programme in Communication Sciences and the postgraduate programmes in Journalism and Political Communication and Political office counselling. He coordinates the CIES-Iscte MediaLab and direct Al’s the Factual.digital, OberCom (Media Observatory) and the Portuguese participation in IBERIFIER – Iberian Digital Media Observatory. Internationally, he is a member of the Steering Committee of the Observatory on Information and Democracy and an associate researcher at CADIS (Centre d’Analyse et d’Interventions Sociologiques). He is a member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences.

María Luengo

María Luengo is an associate professor of journalism at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain) and Faculty Fellow of Yale University’s Center for Cultural Sociology. She chairs the EU COST Action Redressing Radical Polarization: Strengthening European Civil Spheres facing Illiberal Digital Media (DepolarizingEU). Recent books include The Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered: Democratic Culture, Professional Codes, Digital Future (co-edited with Alexander and Breese, CUP, 2016) and News Media Innovation Reconsidered (co-edited with Herrera Damas, Wiley, 2021). Her research has appeared in leading journals in the fields of communication and sociology. She was awarded with the 2019 European Journal of Communication prize and has been involved in several international conference/book projects on the civil sphere, the media, radicalisation and populism in Europe.

Michaëla Cancela-Kieffer

Michaëla Cancela-Kieffer is associate professor at Sciences Po journalism school in Paris. She is also the editor of audio at Agence France-Presse (AFP). She started her career as a freelance producer of tv news magazines. Michaëla, who is half French, half Spanish, has worked as an international reporter and foreign correspondent for AFP in places such as Kabul, Bogota, Madrid or Washington DC. More recently, she was Deputy News Editor, working with the Global Editor-in-Chief at AFP.

Mónica Prado

Mónica Prado is editor-in-chief of Antena 3 Noticias Digital Area. Awarded with the Salvador de Madariaga (2005) and the Best Correspondent Award from the International Press Club (2006), she has been a correspondent in Brussels. She has also held the position of Director General of Communication, Public Diplomacy and Networks at the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She holds a degree in Journalism from the Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca and a PDD Executive Education Program from the IESE Business School.

Raffaele Luise

Raffaele Luise is dean of RAI Vatican correspondents. He has followed the pontificates of three Popes: Jean Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis. He also is a war correspondent, and has covered the wars in Somalia, Baghdad and Sarajevo and now in Ukraine. He is specialist on interreligious and intercultural dialogue – a subject that he teaches at University Suor Orsola Benincasa in Naples. He also teaches “Television journalism” at Lumsa University in Rome. He has written 15 books. The latest are Amazonia. Voyage at the time of the end and Ukraine. Inside a war that changes the world. Currently he collaborates with Osservatore Romano and some private radio and television channels.

Salomé Leal

Salomé Leal is a Portuguese journalist. She joined Polígrafo at the end of 2020, just before the presidential elections, and has been working in the Politics section ever since. She graduated in Communication from the University of Minho. She authors the “Pinóquio” newsletter on Fridays and is the executive editor of Polígrafo.

Sara Cooper

Sara Cooper is project lead of My Country Talks, a political dialogue platform from the German newspaper ZEIT ONLINE. Originally from Chicago, Sara moved to Berlin in 2016 and received a master’s degree in public policy from Hertie School of Governance in 2018. Over the last ten years, Sara has worked for organizations of all sizes at the intersection of media and technology, both U.S. and Europe. She joined My Country Talks in 2020 and is responsible for the software development, partnerships, and project management of global projects including Europe Talks, The World Talks, My City Talks, and several national dialogue programs across Europe, North and South America.

Vítor Gonçalves

Vítor Gonçalves is a Portuguese public television (RTP) journalist, editor and anchor of Grande Entrevista, a RTP weekly interview show. He was deputy head of News and Washington Correspondent. He holds a PhD in Communication Sciences and is the author of essays about media and politics published in Portuguese scientific magazines.

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