I am an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. I earned my doctorate in Arts and Humanities from the same institution in 2010, specialising in Communication Sciences and focusing on Communication Ethics and Deontology. I led the undergraduate (2016-2017) and the master's (2010-2015) programmes in Journalism and Communication and articipated in numerous scientific, pedagogical, and administrative committees at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. There, I was involved in the project to establish the Research Group V on Communication, Journalism, and Public Space at the Centre for 20 th Century Interdisciplinary Studies, which I chaired from 2012 to 2021. I also founded and directed Mediapolis – Revista de Comunicação, Jornalismo e Espaço Público, a scientific journal on Communication, Journalism and Public Space. I am the president of Lusocom – Lusophone Federation of Communication Sciences, the vice president of the Sopcom – Portuguese Association of Communication Sciences, as well as of the Ethics Committee of the Portuguese Journalists’ Union of Journalists. Further aspects of my scientific activities encompass the authorship of two solo-authored books, the co-edition of 11 journal editions, and the publication of 15 books and two scientific reports. I have authored 34 articles in scientific journals and book chapters, participated in four funded research projects and two non-funded projects, and organised about forty scientific events. I have also presented papers at over fifty conferences. In 2020, I was among the key founders of the Rede Interuniversitária de Estudos sobre Jornalistas (RIEJ) [Interuniversities Network of Studies on Journalists]. I started teaching at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Leiria campus in 1997 and at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria in 2000. I began my academic career after working as a journalist for 14 years. I still hold professional license number 503.