Fernando Magalhães (journalist)

Fernando Magalhães (* around 1954 in Porto , Portugal ; † February 1, 2013 in Lisbon , Portugal) was a Portuguese journalist and correspondent for RTP .

Life

Fernando Magalhães moved with his family as a child to what was then the Portuguese colony of Mozambique . After independence, despite his very young age, he became a co-founder of the magazine A Tribuna and co-founder of the national news agency AIM and, under President Samora Machel, head of the Information Office. In 1977 he returned to Portugal and worked for about a year at Diario de Noticias as a journalist before he switched to television in 1978 and initially became a member of the editorial team of the news program Informaçao 2 , whose spokesman was mainly the well-known António Mega Ferreira and then up to his Resigned in 2001 as a correspondent for RTP in Cape Verde and Mozambique.

The last collaboration between Magalhães and RTP was his script for a documentary about the Portuguese colonial war (A Guerra). Magalhães died in Lisbon after a long illness. The body was laid out in the Capela de Nossa Senhora do Cacho in Linda-a-Velha . The burial took place in the Cermeterio de Carnaxide cemetery .

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• www.publico.pt/portugal/noticia/jornalista-que-158307
• www.expresso.sapo.pt/morreu-fernando-magalhaes=f784289