PORTUGUESE LOCAL PRESS UNIT

IN OTHER WORDS – 3rd STEERING COMITTEE

3rd - 4th MAY 2012 – TALLINN, ESTONIA

EUROPEAN COMMISSIONDIRECTORATE-GENERAL JUSTICE, FREEDOM AND SECURITYDirectorate D : Fundamental Rights and Citizenship

Unit D4 : Financial support – Fundamental Rights and Citizenship

PORTUGUESE PRESS UNIT – START UP ACTIVITIES

IEBA decided to involve organisations representing the most relevant minorities in Portugal and chose, among the existing organisations, the ones that have delegations or are located in Coimbra.

The first step to create the PLPU was making contacts with the chosen associations. We send emails and had meetings with 5 associations that work on racism, immigrants, women (especially immigrants), victims of crimes, LGBT and people with disability.

IEBA has established a collaboration protocol with each one, in the framework the In Other Words project.

IEBA has selected also a group facilitator. We decided to search for someone with a professional profile combining academic work in the field of minorities and discrimination, with social participation and activism in cause defense.

Portuguese Local Press Unit is composed by 3 persons from the project staff (2 Sociologists and 1 Consultant), 1 group facilitator (Anthropology) and 5 persons in behalf of the organizations representing minorities.

The organizations are the following:

SOS RACISMO - SOS Racism aims at fighting for a fairer society, more equal and where all cultural, nationals and

foreigners with any skin tone, can enjoy the same rights of citizenship.

GRAAL - International women's movement.

APAV GAV Coimbra - The main objective of this institution is to support victims of crime. 

WHO PARTICIPATES IN THE PORTUGUESE LOCAL PRESS UNIT…

NÃO TE PRIVES - Aims at combating discrimination based on sexuality, sexual orientation or gender identity and

promoting human rights as a whole.

APPACDM - Aims at create and improve conditions for persons with mental disability (or in situations of exclusion). 

In addition to these organizations, journalists from the monitored newspapers are always invited to participate in the PLPU meetings, but only once the Director of a local newspaper appear and participated only in an initial part a meeting.

WHO PARTICIPATES IN THE PORTUGUESE LOCAL PRESS UNIT…

After these initial meetings and with the local partnership established, IEBA and the 5 local partners decided to organize a public presentation of project and the Local Press Unit. This public presentation was in 13th January 2012 and took place in the Tea House in Coimbra - a café in a public garden, managed by one of the partners APPACDM.

PORTUGUESE PRESS UNIT

Public presentation flyer

Public presentation photos

Local newspapers news about the public presentation

IEBA and the local partners have jointly decided to monitor 10 Newspapers:

- 3 regional newspapers:

"Campeão das Províncias", "Diário As Beiras" "Diário de Coimbra”

- 7 national reference newspapers:"Jornal de Notícias“ "Diário de Notícias“ "Expresso", "Jornal I“ "O Público“ "SOL” “Primeiro de Janeiro”

PORTUGUESE LOCAL PRESS UNIT - ACTIVITIES

In the Local Press Unit IEBA is responsible for:

daily monitor the 3 regional newspapers; pre-selection of news with stereotypes, discrimination and other

negative prejudice in the 3 newspapers and sending the news to the LPU facilitator;

elaboration of the draft version of the monthly newsletter and presentation to the LPU in the monthly meeting;

integration of the LPU contributes and elaboration of the final version of the monthly newsletter;

dissemination of the monthly newsletter to a pre-selected mailing list in:

- In Other Words project web site,

- In Other Words - Por Outras Palavras Facebook .

PORTUGUESE LOCAL PRESS UNIT - ACTIVITIES

The PLPU facilitator have the following tasks:

daily monitor 7 national newspapers; pre-selection of news with stereotypes, discrimination and other

negative prejudice in the 7 journals; elaboration of the pre-selected news analysis from the 10

monitored journals; presentation of all news and the proposal of analysis in the

monthly LPU meeting; elaboration of the final analysis to each selected news, based on

the discussion had on the monthly LPU meeting.

PORTUGUESE LOCAL PRESS UNIT- ACTIVITIES

The PLPU organizations responsibilities are:

participate in all monthly meetings; participate in the shared analysis and debate of the pre-selected

news analyze and debate of the draft version of the monthly newsletter; disseminate the monthly newsletter.

PORTUGUESE LOCAL PRESS UNIT - ACTIVITIES

WHAT WE HAVE DONE UNTIL NOW…

1 Public Presentation of the project and the local press unit

4 LPU meetings: january, february, march, april 2012

WHAT WE HAVE DONE UNTIL NOW…

3 Local Newsletters

1 Facebook page to disseminate the project and the Newsletters

NEWSLETTER BASE STRUCTURE…Portuguese newsletter has a layout and a structure that has been agreed by all its partners. It has been a dynamic process, with the participation of all, with some changes and improvements from the first, to the second and third edition.

Front page: Editorial + Index

Page 2: Positive: a selected case of good journalism – image and/or content selection Alert: a selected case of negative journalism, invisibility of certain themes

Page 3, 4, 5, 6 News main categories: monthly selected news containing stereotypes,

xenophobia, LGBTphobia, sexual orientation, gender equality, romaphobia, nationalism

Page 7 In Other Words - European project Portuguese Local Press Unit

Page 8 Presentation of one PLPU partner Reading suggestions, internet, credits

NEXT STEPS… Conference:

“Por outras palavras - Media e (Não)Discriminação” – June 2012

2 Articles: Reflexion on the work produced by the PLPU – July e December

5 short videos

13 newsletters (9 monthly Newsletter+4 thematic Newsletter)

2 press releases

Final Portuguese publication with: project presentation, LPU partners presentations, LPU articles,

conference articles & other information to be selected

PORTUGUESE LOCAL PRESS UNIT

Liliana Silva, liliana.silva@ieba.org.pt

Patrícia Silva, patricia.silva@ieba.org.pt

www.ieba.org.pt

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