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António Granado

António Granado

Communication Sciences Department

Associate Professor

Office: B505

agranado@fcsh.unl.pt

António Granado co-directs the Master in Science Communication. For more than 26 years, he has worked as a science journalist, mainly at Público, one of Portugal’s main daily quality newspapers, where he also was science editor, sub-editor-in-chief, managing editor and online editor. From 2010 to 2014, he worked as the online editor of RTP, the Portuguese public broadcaster.

Research unit: NOVA Institute of Communication (ICNOVA)

Research areas: Science communication, Journalism, New media, Communication sciences

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Training
YearDegreeInstitutionArea
2024Communication Sciences
2008DoctorateUniversity of Leeds Communication Sciences
1994MasterBoston University Science Journalism
1984BachelorUniversidade de Lisboa Modern Languages and Literature (Portuguese-English)
  • Assessing the quality of suicide reporting in Portugal  
  • Psychiatrists’ Perceptions of the Role of Journalists in Suicide Reporting and Prejudices about Mental Illnesses in Portugal  
  • Suicide mortality in Portugal after 4 mediatized suicides from 1996 to 2020  
  • Tools to communicate science  
TitleFunding sourceStartState
Nutrition and WellBeing Fact Checking for HE - InvestigadorErasmus+2022Ongoing
Retrieval, Extraction, and Aggregation Computing Technology for Integrating and Organizing News - InvestigadorFCT2010Completed
Comunicação de ciência para investigadores - Investigador responsávelFCT2005Completed
PositionStartEnd
Multimedia editor - RTP (2010 - 2014)
Journalist, editor, managing editor - Publico (1989 - 2010)
Tutor - University of Leeds (2003 - 2004)
Invited lecturer - Universidade de Coimbra (1997 - 2006)
Lecturer - Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa (1997 - 1999)