ESCS launches Diário LX: New journalism project focuses on training, innovation and media literacy

The School of Communication and Media Studies (ESCS), through its Journalism Trends Laboratory and its research centre LIACOM, has launched on May 21st Diário LX, a new multiplatform and transmedia journalism project dedicated to editorial experimentation, scientific research and the practical training of future generations of journalists.

Diário LX aims to explore new languages, formats and digital technologies while maintaining rigor, editorial independence, plurality and a commitment to the public interest as its guiding principles.

The project operates through a semi-professional newsroom that brings together Journalism students from ESCS alongside experienced journalists, bridging education and real-world journalistic production while making it possible to observe, in an experimental setting, the ongoing transformations within the media sector.

As a research object, Diário LX will be studied by researchers in the fields of Media and Journalism, who will analyse production routines, editorial decisions, technological resources and the relationships between audiences and narrative formats.

In the launch editorial, entitled “A Country That Awakens” (País que amanhece), the project’s director, Fátima Lopes Cardoso, ESCS lecturer and LIACOM researcher, states that “Diário LX is born from the conviction that journalism can reconnect with people through rigor, curiosity, depth and the construction of knowledge that is useful to society.”

The UNESCO Chair of Communication, Media and Information Literacy and Citizenship (LIACOM/ESCS), which is also part of the LIACOM structure, supports and closely follows this project, sharing its mission of strengthening media literacy, combating disinformation and promoting social cohesion, while remaining open to joint initiatives.

The project Diário LX will be officially presented to the public in September or October at a ceremony to be held at ESCS.

Text edited based on the news article by the ESCS Communication Service (SCom).