Nelson Traquina

Nelson Traquina is a professor of communication science at the New University of Lisbon and president of the Center for Research in Media and Journalism Lisbon. After obtaining degrees in International Studies in the United States, he worked for United Press International before completing his Ph.D. at the University of Paris V. He is the author of Big Show Media: Voyage to the Portuguese Audiovisual World; Journalism: Questions, Theories and Stories; and The Frustrated Fourth Estate: Portugal’s Post-Revolutionary Media System. Traquina has also written articles in journals such as Media, Culture & Society. His research project is “The Journalistic Tribe.”