Helena Ferro de Gouveia

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Helena Ferro de Gouveia (* 1971 in Bissau , Portuguese Guinea ) is a Portuguese journalist, lecturer and author.

Life

Helena Ferro de Gouveia was born in the capital of the Portuguese colony of Portuguese Guinea, now Guinea-Bissau . Her father came from a small Portuguese village in the remote region of Trás-os-Montes .

After Guinea-Bissau gained independence in 1974, she came to Lisbon with her parents , where she grew up. After graduating from high school, she studied communication science at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa , after which she completed a postgraduate degree in communication law at the law faculty of the University of Coimbra .

From 1996 she started her journalistic activity. Since then she has been writing for a variety of Portuguese newspapers, including the daily Público , the weekly Sol , and the business paper Jornal de Negócios .

She has been part of the Portuguese-language editorial team at Deutsche Welle since 2006 and is a lecturer and trainer at DW Akademie . She is also often invited as an expert, for example on the topic of the Brazilian media landscape, or in scientific discussions on refugee issues. She also held a visiting professorship in journalism at the Universidade Nova in Lisbon.

In the course of her work, she reported as a journalist a. a. from Malaysia, Egypt, East Timor, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, the USA and Israel. As a lecturer at Deutsche Welle, she also taught journalism and lectured on peace journalism, war trauma, political journalism, journalism in crisis areas and business journalism, etc. a. in countries like South Sudan, Namibia, Guinea-Bissau, Brazil and Mozambique.

In 2015, her first book Domadora de Camaleões (German: Chamäleon - Tompteurin ), a collection of chronicles, short stories and poems, was published by the Dortmund Post's Oxalá publishing house (2nd edition 2016). Some of the posts are from her personal blog.

Helena Ferro de Gouveia is the mother of two daughters and lives in Bonn and Lisbon .

Books

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helena Ferro de Gouveia: Domadora de Camaleões . 2nd edition, Oxalá Editora, Dortmund 2015, p. 85
  2. ↑ Helena Ferro de Gouveia: Domadora de Camaleões . 2nd edition, Oxalá Editora, Dortmund 2015, p. 51
  3. ↑ a b c d Profile of Helena Ferro de Gouveias at the Portuguese-speaking Deutsche Welle , accessed on May 24, 2017
  4. ^ Collection of articles by Helena Ferro de Gouveias on the website of the Público newspaper, accessed on May 24, 2017
  5. ↑ Article from the beginning of 2017 on the website of the weekly newspaper Sol, accessed on May 24, 2017
  6. ↑ Article Helena Ferro de Gouveias on the website of the business newspaper Jornal de Negócios, accessed on May 24, 2017
  7. ^ Brazil: Mighty press groups and alternative media , article from May 12, 2014 by Deutsche Welle on the discussion in the ARD capital studio, accessed on May 25, 2017
  8. ↑ Reference to a discussion on November 17, 2016 on refugee camps in Kenya and Uganda PDF access on the website of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa , accessed on May 25, 2017
  9. ↑ Short biography in the blurb of your book Domadora de Camaleões . 2nd edition, Oxalá Editora, Dortmund 2015
personal data
SURNAME Gouveia, Helena Ferro de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese journalist and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Bissau , Portuguese Guinea