Former journalist, Jorge Pedro Sousa is full professor at University Fernando Pessoa - UFP (Porto, Portugal) and an integrated researcher at ICNOVA - NOVA Communication Institute (Lisbon, Portugal). He coordinates the PhD in Communication Sciences at UFP. He coordinated the Journalism and Media Studies branch of the PhD in Information Sciences at UFP and the undergraduation degree in Communication Sciences at the same Institution. He researches in the field of Journalism Studies, focusing on the history of journalism, the historical-cultural analysis of journalistic discourse and photojournalism. He has led three research projects with public funding obtained in a competitive tender and three research projects with private competitive funding. He was a member of the research team of another research project with public funding obtained in a competitive tender. He is a member of several national and international scientific organizations, including Red de Historiadores de la Comunicación, AsHisCom - Asociación de Historiadores de la Comunicación, of which he is a member of the Board of Directors, INTERCOM - Brazilian Association of Communication Interdisciplinary Studies (former member of the Brazilianistas Board of this association, the most important in the lusophone sphere), SBPJor - Brazilian Journalism Research Association, and SOPCOM - Portuguese Communication Sciences Association, of which he is president of the Supervision Board and of which he have founded and coordinated the work goups of Journalism Studies and Communication History. He has worked as a visiting professor in several universities in Spain and Brazil, like Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (Spain), Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil), Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), Universidade Metodista de São Paulo (Brazil), Universidade de Brasília (Brazil), Universidade Estadual Paulista (Brazil), Universidade Luterana do Brasil (Brazil), and Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (Portugal). He was a member of the teaching staff of the Master in History of Communication, organized by the Universidad Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). He favors the production and dissemination of knowledge in his native language, Portuguese, and in its sister language, Spanish, because he believes that his native language must be valued as a language of knowledge. Being critical of the "ideology of productivism" at the University, he continues to value "works of a lifetime" and the production of monographic books in his area of knowledge, examples of which are the book "Uma história crítica do fotojornalismo", published in Portugal and in Brazil and Spain ( translation) and the monography "Portugal: pequena história de um grande jornalismo", in two volumes, published in open access, and he has quite a few citations accounted for (Google Scholar, Academia...). He is a member of the Scientific and Editorial boards of several scientific journals, such as "Brazilian Journalism Research", "Estudos em Jornalismo e Mídia" (UFSC) and "Media & Jornalismo". He strives to transfer knowledge to his peers and to society, regularly taking part in refereed scientific events and accepting invitations to lecture at various public and private institutions, including secondary and polytechnic schools, universities and cultural organizations. He also supervidsed 16 pos-doctoral researchers, 32 PhD researchers and 44 MSc junior researchers. He obtained his PhD in Information [Communication] Sciences - Journalism from the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (1997), with a thesis directed by Prof. Margarita Ledo Andión, and did post-doctoral work at the same university (1999-2000), under the supervision of Prof. Xosé López García.