Carla Rodrigues Cardoso

Carla Rodrigues Cardoso holds a Ph.D in Communication Sciences by the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She is Assistant Professor at Universidade Lusófona, where she is the director of the BA in Communication and Journalism and responsible for the annual Communication and Journalism conferences (11th edition in 2019). She integrates the research team working on the FCT Project “Towards a history of journalism in Portugal” (PTDC/CCI-JOR/21844/2017).

She has been analysing the topic of newsmagazines, a sector of the press on which she has written over a dozen papers. In January 2018 she undertook an Erasmus+ Staff Mobility for Training visit at the London College of Communication (University of the Arts London) and in January 2019, she carried out another, this time at the School of Journalism, Media and Culture (Cardiff University), with the purpose of implementing Magazine Studies in Portugal.

In July 2018 she was the only Portuguese researcher selected for the international conference “Mapping the Magazine”, hosted by Columbia College Chicago, in the USA. This participation resulted in the invitation to organize the 6th edition of this conference at Universidade Lusófona in 2020.