João Manuel Rocha is a guest assistant professor at the Faculty of Humanities (FCH) of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa and a PhD candidate in Communication Sciences at ISCTE-IUL (University Institute of Lisbon). He worked as a journalist at the news agencies Anop and Lusa and was part of the founding team of the daily newspaper Público, to which he belonged until 2016, having been editor in several periods and sections. In recent years as a full-time journalist he has devoted particular attention to news in Portuguese-speaking countries. He has participated in research projects and published articles in academic journals. Her Master’s thesis, on the noticiability of the East Timor crisis in 1999, was published in book form. He is a member of the Technical-Pedagogical Council of Cenjor, a journalists’ training centre.