Young people and journalists gathered in the Noble Room of the Lusófona University - Porto University Centre last Tuesday, December 10, to think about news in the future. Responsibility, representativeness and literacies were at the centre of the debate: on the one hand, from the speakers' perspective, bubbles and echo chambers, information overload and disinformation evoke the need for journalists not to lose sight of responsibility when carrying out their duties, while it is important to invest in media literacies and, more recently, algorithms and Artificial Intelligence. On the other hand, the need to invest in younger voices was also the subject of reflection.
The meeting promoted an exchange of ideas between Daniel Catalão, from RTP, Adriano Cerqueira, from 90 Segundos de Ciência, Carolina Franco, from Shifter and Público na Escola, Francisco Porto Fernandes, a columnist for Público and Jornal de Notícias, Mariana Vieira, a student studying Communication Sciences at Universidade Lusófona and Camila Luís, also a student in the field at Universidade de Coimbra and a university journalist at A Cabra, who were invited to reflect on the topic based on their answers to the open question ‘What will the news be like in the future? ‘ from the representative survey carried out online as part of the YouNDigital project with 1,362 young people aged between 15 and 24 living in Portugal.