While the Portuguese media goes through a crisis, the government has taken to hiring unmotivated and underpaid journalists, accelerating the hollowing out of newsrooms.
João de Almeida Dias
João de Almeida Dias
Journalist João de Almeida Dias is a Mapping Media Freedom correspondent
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