Monthly Archives: May 2014

A new daily online newspaper launched: Observador

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Observador

A new project came to reality in the Portuguese media landscape since 19 May. It’s called Observador and is led by José Manuel Fernandes and David Dinis.

The Observador is exclusively digital, and also makes use of social networks to spread their news. The publication has a daily newsletter, which is sent to subscribers with a summary of the most important news of the day.

José Manuel Fernandes, the former director of daily newspaper Público, is Observador’s publisher and David Dinis, previously the political editor of the weekly Sol, is the executive director.

Source: Público.

The daily online edition of Expresso is available

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Expresso, a weekly newspaper, which is published on Saturday, has now a daily online version, which is posted, from monday to friday, at 6 p.m.

After 41 years as a weekly newspaper, Expresso innovates and has now a daily edition, exclusive to subscribers and buyers of the paper version, whom receive a code to access the contents of the online version for a week. Ricardo Costa, director of Expresso, considers the change as a “digital shift”, in line with what has happened in recent years in Portuguese media. For the director of the newspaper, the new edition is about the “reading of the events of the day, done by the newsroom of Expresso with analysis and interpretation”. This is a pioneer strategy in Portugal and it’s already used in foreign newspapers such as La Repubblica, El Mundo and Globo.

The paper edition costs 3.2 euros instead of the previous 3 euros, in order to support the new investment. The digital signature costs 69.99 euros per year.

Source: Público.