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Four in Five Portuguese Journalists Have Thought About Quitting, and More Than Half Report at Least Four Signs of Burnout

A study of 750 journalists by the Labpats workplace-health laboratory finds stagnant pay, long shifts and weak management behind the exhaustion. Two thirds would still choose the profession again.

The Portugal Brief 23 Sep 2026

The neoclassical white facade of the Palacio de Sao Bento in Lisbon at dusk, with the Portuguese flag flying above the columned pediment and a lamp post in the foreground

Portugal's Journalists' Union Tells Newsrooms to Stay Away When the Prime Minister Speaks Without Taking Questions

The Sindicato dos Jornalistas says Luis Montenegro has made a habit of statements that end without questions, and is asking editors to stop sending reporters. The mandate it invokes was passed by a journalists' congress in 2017.

The Portugal Brief 19 Sep 2026

Four Parties Voted to Haul Three RTP Chairmen and the Finance Inspectorate Into Parliament, and They Were the Only Four in the Room

The budget committee approved hearings on allowances the Inspeção-Geral de Finanças calls improper. Nine payments are at stake, the report is still a draft, and the applications to run RTP next closed on 15 September.

The Portugal Brief 17 Sep 2026

The long modernist facade of the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal in Lisbon behind two tall trees, with a patterned Portuguese cobblestone forecourt in the foreground

Another 1.8 Million Euros Carries Portugal's Home-Grown AI Model to December, and the Government Turns to Newspaper Archives for Training Data

Tuesday's Council of Ministers resolution approves a second phase for AMALIA, aimed at building tools that can sit inside public services rather than behind a chat window. Separately, the government says it will approach media companies for access to their recent archives.

The Portugal Brief 15 Sep 2026

Scattered white houses and cork oaks on the wooded slopes of the Serra de Monchique in the Algarve, Portugal, under low cloud.

Portugal's €3 Million Tender to Keep Newspapers Reaching the Interior Ranks the Monopolist First in Both Lots, and the Loser Is Contesting a House in Monchique

Only two companies bid. VASP has held the market alone since 2017 and two regulators call it a monopoly. The preliminary report puts it first in both lots at €763,000 a year, and Pergaminhoflash says the winning sales-point count includes a dwelling house, a fire brigade and twelve CTT branches.

The Portugal Brief 29 Aug 2026

The building of Radio Popular do Concelho de Soure, a local radio station in central Portugal

The Government Earmarks €500,000 to Rebuild Local Radio Stations Battered by This Winter's Storm Kristin

The state has set aside €500,000 — €300,000 of it reserved for regional and local stations — to help broadcasters replace transmitters and studio equipment wrecked by storm Kristin, which hit central Portugal in late January. Set out in Decree-Law 140/2026, the scheme runs to 26 August and recognise

The Portugal Brief 26 Jul 2026

The yellow facade of the Ministerio das Financas headquarters in Lisbon, flying the Portuguese and European Union flags

Portugal's Finance Ministry Blocks an ECO Journalist From an Off-the-Record Briefing After the Paper Scooped Its Treasury-Certificates Launch

After ECO published details of the government's new Certificados do Tesouro a day before an embargoed release, a GNR officer turned its reporter away from an off-the-record Finance Ministry briefing he had been invited to. ECO's director calls it a punishment and says the paper will boycott such mee

The Portugal Brief 04 Jul 2026

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