Ana Pinto Martinho is the online editor of the European Journalism Observatory (EJO) in Portuguese and is a guest lecturer at ISCTE-IUL. She is also a researcher at OberCom – Communication Observatory and a research assistant at CIES-IUL. She is linked to several European research projects such as Newsreel, CoMMPASS, IBERIFIER and Algowatch, and is part of the Portuguese team that works on the Digital News Report, at the Reuters Institute for the Sutdy of Journalism, at the University of Oxford. She participates in studies by the EJO network, such as the study on European media coverage of migration issues. Her areas of research have focused on journalism practices, media changes brought about by the internet, issues of trust in journalism, algorithmic literacy, and lately issues linked to journalism and artificial intelligence As a journalist she directed the iGOV project, a media outlet dedicated to the areas of public administration, Government, eGovernment, open data and citizenship. She was also a journalist at the Portuguese edition of InformationWeek, director of the publication Interface – Administração Pública and worked for social media outlets such as Diário de Notícias, Semanário Sol, and then RTP Informação. She is currently working on her PhD, in Communication Sciences, at ISCTE. She has a Master's degree in Communication, Culture and Information Technologies (ISCTE) and a Degree in Social Communication (UBI).

Gustavo Cardoso is Full Professor of Sociology of Communication at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and a researcher at CIES. He is also an associate researcher at CADIS (Center d'Analyze et d'Interventions Sociologiques) in Paris and Director of OberCom - Observatório dos Meios de Comunicação Social in Lisbon. He is currently the director of the PhD in Communication Sciences and of three post-graduate programs in Communication at ISCTE-IUL, namely the Post-Graduate program in Journalism, the Post-Graduate program in Factchecking and disinformation, and the Post-Graduate program in Communication and Politics.  From 1996 to 2006, he was advisor to the President of the Portuguese Republic, Jorge Sampaio, for Information Society and Telecommunications policy. From 2006-2012, he was non-executive Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Portuguese news agency Lusa. In 2006 he was awarded the degree of "Grande Oficial da Ordem do Infante D. Henrique" for relevant services rendered to Portugal. In 2009 he was elected as Young Global Leader of the WEF and in 2018 he was proposed to be a member of the Academia Europaea where he holds the position of member of the Cinema, media and visual studies section. He has a degree in Business Organization and Management, a Master in European Studies and a PhD in Sociology of Communication. He also holds a specialization in "Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century" from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Journalist and specialist in digital communication, he is the director of Cenjor - the Portuguese Journalists' Training Centre. He is doing a PhD in Communication Sciences and has a Master in Communication, Culture and Information Technology from ISCTE-IUL. He is an assistant researcher at CIES-IUL and in Obercom, was the coordinator of the Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism ISCTE-IUL / Media Capital between 2013 and 2018 and of the MsC in New Media Management. He is a lecturer at ISCTE-IUL, at the post-graduation in Digital Marketing at IPAM, and a trainer since 2001. He was a journalist in several national newspapers and editor-in-chief, editorial director, and publisher of several magazines and online projects. He has received a dozen national and international awards with online and multimedia projects.

Ph.D. candidate in communication sciences. His research interests include studies sociology, communication sciences and the TV, radio, press and Internet studies sector. Works as a member of the Observatorio (OBS*) journal since 2015. Prior to begining his doctoral studies, he worked as research assistant at ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon and at the Media Observatory in Lisbon. With his teams he published over 50 research reports in the field of media and communication studies, 3 books, 3 book chapters. He was also awarded with five academic merit-based scholarships during the conclusion of his bachelor degree in Sociology and Strategic Planning