Portugal's state news agency has had no director of information since midnight. The board named a permanent pick and then an interim one; the media regulator has ruled on neither, and the newsroom council says the vacancy breaks the Press Law.
The IGF's final audit of RTP holds that 12.25 million euros in allowances paid from 2018 to 2024 lacked legal support and shareholder approval, and refers possible liability of its managers to the Court of Auditors. The managers call that incomprehensible.
Meta's new Commercial Terms would let it send crawlers and test logins to the websites of any business that runs a Page, an ad account or a business profile. WAN-IFRA asked for a pause for news publishers, and says Meta has pushed the start date back three weeks.
The Government has awarded Vasp both lots of its three-year press distribution tender for about 2.29 million euros, well below the 3.5 million a year first estimated. Every mainland municipality must keep at least one point of sale.
The #Pub project's AI tracker says 53 percent of influencer posts it classed as advertising were not correctly labelled, and users have sent 40 complaints to ASAE. What Portugal's Advertising Code and the DGC guide require, the fines, and how to report a post.
Rita Matias and Madalena Cordeiro led party members into the Rádio Universidade de Coimbra studio during a live debate the students' union had barred Chega from attending. The PSP has identified Matias.
Luísa Meireles leaves on Monday. She says the board chairman's remarks to MPs on 29 September amounted to a dismissal in public, while parliament weighs five plans to change who runs the state news agency.
