Journalists as interlocutors and witnesses. The impact of news on victims, journalists and the public.

Facilitators: Ana Luísa Rodrigues (Journalist), Isabel Nery (Journalist).

Programme
15h00 | Ana Luísa Rodrigues (Journalist)
Our pain doesn't make the news - When journalism makes invisible traumas visible

16h25 | Break

16h40 | Isabel Nery (Journalist)
Journalists' Mental Health and the State of Journalism

Bio notes 

Ana Luísa Rodrigues has been a journalist since 1997. She started out in the press (at Diário de Notícias and Público) but has spent most of her career at RTP. She is a journalist in the Society section of RTP's daily news programme. She is also often the author of high-profile reports.
She pays special attention to human rights issues - often reporting on topics related to poverty, family and gender violence, sexual violence, vulnerable populations and refugees. Contemporary history is another area of her reporting, exploring how journalism allows/provokes an enriching dialogue between past and present.
Recently, the major report “One in the midst of many”, which shows the lifelong impacts and gives a voice to survivors of sexual abuse in the context of the church, was awarded the "Children's Rights in the News" prize in the television category (June 2024). The same report was awarded 2nd place in the Pain Journalism prize (2023). Other work has been recognised with journalism awards. “Deported to another world” won the Gazeta 2018. The series of reports “Right to Childhood” (2019) and “Right to Skin” (2021) won honourable mentions in the Children's Rights in the News Award and the Crowned Hearts Award, respectively.
She has a degree in Communication Sciences from Universidade Nova de Lisboa (1997) and a Master's degree in Social Sciences from the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS-UL, 2005). Her Master's thesis (unanimously rated Very Good) was published as a book: "In the eyes of the world - Portugal as seen by international correspondents" (2008).

Isabel Nery is an award-winning journalist, essayist and researcher published by Springer-Nature (Our Brain and the News, 2024). She was vice-president of the Journalists' Union. In 2023, she broadcast a six-part series on burnout in journalists on Antena 1. Biographer of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (4th edition, 2019), she is the author of several non-fiction works, including Cerco ao Parlamento: quando a Assembleia Constituinte e a Democracia foram tomadas de assalto (2023), Os 5 Homens Que Mudaram Portugal Para Sempre: do berço à Democracia (2022), the reportage book As Prisioneiras - Mães Atrás das Grades (2012) and the essay Chorei de Véspera (2016). Two of her books were adapted into short films by Margarida Madeira (Os Prisioneiros, 2015, and Ensaio Sobre a Morte, 2019). She holds a PhD in Communication Sciences and collaborates with national and international publications. She is research chair of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS) and vice-president of the Association for Media Literacy and Journalism (ALPMJ), a subject to which she devotes much of her research.