Público (Portugal)

{{Infobox newspaper

| name = Público

| logo = Logo_publico.svg

| image = Publico-20071227.jpg

| image_size = 200px

| format = Tabloid

| foundation = {{start date and age|df=y|1990|3|5}}

| political = Centre {{Cite web| title=Comentário político nos media 2023 | language=pt | trans-title=Political commentary in the media 2023 | date=March 2024 | url=https://medialab.iscte-iul.pt/wp-content/uploads/Comentario_2023_Final_Pub_7Mar2024.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240410061806/https://medialab.iscte-iul.pt/wp-content/uploads/Comentario_2023_Final_Pub_7Mar2024.pdf | archive-date=2024-04-10}}

| owners = Sonae.com

| headquarters = Lisbon and Porto

| editor = David Pontes

| circulation = 28,360 (September–October 2013)

| ISSN = 0872-1548

| website = {{url|www.publico.pt}}

}}

Público ({{IPA|pt|ˈpuβliku}}; English: Public) is a Portuguese daily national newspaper of record published in Lisbon, Portugal.

History and profile

Público was first published on 5 March 1990.{{cite web|author1=Rui Alexandre Novais|author2=Hugo Ferro|title=Media Stratups in a Creative Destructive Scenario|url=http://www.cmdconf.net/2013/makale/PDF/29.pdf|work=II. International Conference on Communication, Media, Technology and Design|access-date=1 December 2014|date=2013}}{{cite book|author1=Manuel Pinto|author2=Helena Sousa|editor=M. Kelly |display-editors=etal |title=The Euromedia Handbook|date=2004|publisher=SAGE|location=London|pages=180–190|url=https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/bitstream/1822/1000/1/manuelpinto_helenasousa_D.MCQUAIL_ChapterFinal.pdf|access-date=9 December 2014|chapter=Portugal}}{{cite web|title=Overview of the Sector|url=http://www.gmcs.pt/en/overview-of-the-sector-20140314-164712|work=GMCS|access-date=7 April 2015|date=19 May 2014}} The paper was founded by Sonae{{cite web|author=Helena Sousa|title=Portuguese Media: New Forms of Concentration|url=http://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/bitstream/1822/1620/1/hsousa_IAMCRCoreia_1994.pdf|work=University of Minho|access-date=24 January 2015|format=Conference paper|date=1994}} and is owned by the Sonae group.{{cite web|title=Portuguese Media|url=https://www.bpiequity.bpi.pt/others/PDF.aspx?id=49681|work=BPI Equity|access-date=2 February 2015|date=5 March 2014}} In 1992 Italian media company Repubblica International Holding SA, a subsidiary of Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso, acquired 16.75% of the paper.{{cite web|title=History. 1990s|url=http://www.gruppoespresso.it/en/the-group/history/90s.html|work=Gruppo Espresso|access-date=24 December 2014}}

Público is published in tabloid format and has its headquarters in Lisbon.{{cite book|author=Peter Karibe Mendy Lobban Jr.|title=Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NbJ8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA467|access-date=15 May 2015|date=17 October 2013|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-8027-6|page=468}} The paper is known as a publication of the French school with extensive texts and few illustrations. Its first editor-in-chief was Vicente Jorge Silva, formerly sub-editor-in-chief at Expresso. José Manuel Fernandes also served as the editor-in-chief of the paper. Since 2009 Bárbara Reis has served as the editor-in-chief.{{cite web|title=Case Study "Público": Perfect brand management on all platforms|url=http://enc.newsroom.de/lang/en/themen-2015-topics-2015/best-cases-best-cases-%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%8B-%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%88%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85-%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2/|work=European Newspaper Congress|access-date=26 February 2015}}

Público is one of the first Portuguese mainstream newspapers to have an online edition which was started in 1995.{{cite journal|author=João Canavilhas|title=From Remediation to Convergence: Looking at the Portuguese media|journal=Brazilian Journalism Research|date=2012|volume=8|issue=1|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260228470|access-date=15 June 2015}} Its online edition was free and included almost all the articles from the print edition, except for the pictures. In 2005 it changed from a fully free-access to a subscription model. In 2006, the HTML version of the current day's edition became free again, while the other contents, such as the PDF version (only for subscribers), enhanced HTML version and access to past editions, are still subject to registration and subscription. The online edition of Público was named as Europe's online-medium of the year in 2013.{{cite web|title=Case Study "publico.pt": Storytelling for tablet & Co|url=http://enc.newsroom.de/lang/en/archiv-archive/2014-2/themen-2014topics-2014/case-studies/|work=European Newspaper Congress|access-date=26 February 2015}}

The paper was awarded the European Newspaper of the Year in the category of nationwide newspapers by European Newspapers Congress in 2014.{{cite web|title=16th European Newspaper Award|url=http://www.publicitas.com/en/home/media-news-events/news-detail/?newsid=117666&title=europe-16th-european-newspaper-award-main-prize-winners-from-ireland-the-netherlands-portugal-and-switzerland#.VH2A62SsXRA|work=Publicitas|access-date=2 December 2014|date=16 November 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215183817/http://www.publicitas.com/en/home/media-news-events/news-detail/?newsid=117666&title=europe-16th-european-newspaper-award-main-prize-winners-from-ireland-the-netherlands-portugal-and-switzerland#.VH2A62SsXRA|archive-date=15 February 2015|df=dmy-all}} The current editorial line is outspokenly pro-europeanist.{{Cite news|url=https://www.publico.pt/2018/08/16/opiniao/noticia/os-compromissos-da-direccao-editorial-1841144|title=Os compromissos da Direcção Editorial|last1=Carvalho|first1=Manuel|date=2018-08-16|work=Público|access-date=2019-01-14|last2=Correia|first2=Amílcar|language=pt|trans-title=The commitments of the Editorial Board|quote=A newspaper committed to fostering (...) support for the ideals of the European project and the certainty that as Portuguese we are part of a world that shapes us and in which we ought to participate.|last3=Lopes|first3=Ana Sá|last4=Pontes|first4=David|last5=Pedro|first5=Tiago Luz}}

The paper is considered as a newspaper of record for Portugal (along with Diário de Notícias).{{cite book | title=Letters to the Editor: Comparative and Historical Perspectives | first1=Allison | last1=Cavanagh | first2=John |last2=Steel | date=November 2019 | publisher=Palgrave Macmillan | isbn=978-3030264796 | quote=Our case study of a Portuguese newspaper of record, Público, .... | page=17}}{{cite book | title=The Routledge Companion to Media & Gender | first1=Cynthia |last1=Carter | first2=Linda |last2=Steiner | first3=Lisa |last3=McLaughlin | date=December 2013 | isbn=978-0415527699 | publisher=Routledge | quote=The daily Público is Portugal's newspaper of record, with typical news and section divides. |author-link1=Cynthia Carter | author-link2=Linda Steiner|page=435}}{{cite book | first=Robert M. | last=Fishman | title=Democratic Practice: Origins of the Iberian Divide in Political Inclusion | date=April 2019 | publisher=Oxford University Press | isbn=978-0190912888 | quote=.... with Portuguese journalists included José Manuel Fernandes, at the time director of Portugal's newspaper of record, Publico, Lisbon. | page=234}}

Circulation

The circulation of the paper was 58,000 copies in 2003, making it the fourth best selling newspaper in the country.{{cite web|title=World Press Trends|url=http://www.wan-press.org/ecrire/upload/wpt2004.pdf|work=World Association of Newspapers|access-date=15 February 2015|location=Paris|date=2004}}

In 2005 the paper had a circulation of 46,111 copies.{{cite web|author=Anabela Gradim|title=Press and profitable news. A business model for online newspapers|url=http://www.bocc.ubi.pt/pag/gradim-anabela-press-profitable-papers-IAMCR.pdf|work=BOCC|access-date=24 January 2015}}

In 2006, the circulation was 41,706 copies.

In 2007 it was the fourth best-selling Portuguese newspaper with a circulation of 42,000 copies.{{cite web|author=Anne Austin|display-authors=etal|title=Western Europe Market and Media Fact|url=http://conan.lib.muohio.edu/ebooks/Western_Europe_Market_MediaFact_2008/Western%20Europe%20Market%20&%20MediaFact%202008.pdf|work=ZenithOptimedia|access-date=11 April 2015|date=2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205131709/http://conan.lib.muohio.edu/ebooks/Western_Europe_Market_MediaFact_2008/Western%20Europe%20Market%20%26%20MediaFact%202008.pdf|archive-date=5 February 2015|url-status=dead}}

Its 2008 circulation was 42,527 copies.{{cite encyclopedia|author=Anabela Carvalho|title=Portugal: Media System|url=https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/bitstream/1822/27578/1/Carvalho-Portugal-Media%20System.pdf|encyclopedia=The International Encyclopedia of Communication|access-date=14 April 2015|date=2010}}

The paper had a circulation of 38,229 copies in 2009 and 35,137 copies in 2010.{{cite web|title=National Newspapers|url=http://www.ifabc.org/site/assets/media/National-Newspapers_total-circulation_IFABC_17-01-13.xls|work=International Federation of Audit Bureaux of Circulations|access-date=6 March 2015}}

The circulation of the paper was 33,159 copies in 2011.{{cite web|url=http://www.ligateamedia.pt/LigateaMedia/Artigos/Imprensa/ArticleItem.aspx?tabid=2414&code=pt&ItemId=1954|title=Imprensa: Circulation Portugal 2011|work=Ligatea Media|access-date=4 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106232230/http://www.ligateamedia.pt/LigateaMedia/Artigos/Imprensa/ArticleItem.aspx?tabid=2414&code=pt&ItemId=1954|archive-date=6 January 2014|url-status=dead}}

The circulation was 28,360 copies between September and October 2013.