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.

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).

Sofia Ferro Santos is a professor at IADE and an invited professor at Iscte-IUL and IPPS-Iscte. She teaches marketing and communication courses: marketing project; integrated communcation; political marketing; communication and media theories, among other courses. Sofia Ferro Santos holds a PhD in Communication from Iscte-IUL and an International Master in Management degree from Nova School of Business & Economics. She has a bachelor degree in Comunication Sciences from Nova-FCSH and a Post-graduation degree in Advisory in Communication and Politics from Iscte-IUL. She has also collaborated on the European Project EUMEPLAT - European Media Platforms: assessing positive and negative externalities for European Culture (Funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020; Grant No 101004488) and have worked before on IBERIFIER - Iberian Media Research and Fact-Checking (Funded by European Comission in the scope of CEF-TC-2020-2 - European Digital Media Observatory; Reference 2020-EU-IA-0252). Previously, Sofia has worked for five years in strategic advisory for Hiscox at an European level and for everis (currently NTT Data).    

José Santana Pereira (Nisa, 1982) is a doctor of Political and Social Sciences (EUI, Florence, 2012). José's research has been focused on the media effects on public opinion and the study of media systems in comparative perspective. His research interests also include electoral behavior and political attitudes (namely attitudes towards Europe and, more recently, populist attitudes). He published several papers and book chapters in English, Portuguese and French. In January 2016 José published the essay Política e Entretenimento. After the B.A. in Social Psychology (ISCTE, 2004) and before becoming a PhD researcher at the EUI (2008), José worked as research assistant in the project «Portuguese Voting Behavior and Political Attitudes» (ICS), which carried out the National Election Studies in Portugal. Between 2013 and 2017 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. During and after the PhD, he collaborated in research projects such as the «EU Profiler» (implementation of a voting advice application during the 2009 European election campaign) and the «Media Profiler» (design of an online platform for the comparative analysis of the media in the EU), both hosted by the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS). More recently, he was co-leader of the Portuguese team working at the «EUandI» project, researcher at the «Participation in the EU decision-making: Portugal in comparative perspective» project and leader of the Portuguese team in the project «Where is My Party?». He is currently one of the researchers in charge of the projects «Media Systems in Europe» and «Mechanisms and Impacts of Abstention in Portugal», sponsored by FFMS. José is also the country coordinator for Italy in the project Varieties of Democracy and one of the researchers in charge of the ICS-ISCTE opinion polls. 

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.