Talks & Publications

Things I've said and written about the craft of data journalism, data visualization, and data storytelling.

• AI & Journalism: New Stories, Not Just New Tools

  CORRECTIV.Europe Network - 2025

  Presented 15 building blocks for using AI to tell stories that were previously impossible, focusing on new methodologies rather than productivity tools. Co-presented with Branislava Lovre for the CORRECTIV network.

• Code like a journalist: a emergência do jornalista-programador no PÚBLICO

  MediaCon 2025 - Goethe Institut - 2025

  Pecha Kucha presentation about the evolution of data journalism at PÚBLICO over five years, from 'what's an API?' to including web scraping in the newsroom style guide.

• Máquinas que fazem perguntas

  Oeiras Valley Science Festival - 2025

  Talk at the Oeiras Valley Science Festival about the use of AI in journalism.

• Code like a journalist

  Svelte Meetup Portugal - 2024

  Delivered a talk at the first Svelte Meetup in Portugal, discussing the process of building PÚBLICO's internal graphics/interactive kit using Svelte.

• Hack the newsroom: How data-driven journalism is changing the news

  DSPT #97 - 2021

  Delivered a talk on the integration of data science into journalism, exploring how data-driven journalism is transforming news production.

• Data Journalism: Much More Than Using Numbers to Tell Stories

  Revista Jornalismo & Jornalistas - 2021

  Essay published in issue 76 of 'Jornalismo & Jornalistas,' about the state of data journalism in Portugal.

• The Precise Algorithm, the Confusing Algorithm, and Media Education

  Webinar GT Communication and Education, SOPCOM - 2021

  Participated in a webinar discussing the role of algorithms in media education.

• The Impact of Wikipedia on the World of Free Culture

  Roundtable - Wiki-Lusofonia Festival - 2021

  Engaged in a roundtable discussion on the influence of Wikipedia on global free culture.

• Generating Story Ideas from Data - Lessons from Portugal

  Dataharvest - 2020

  A conversation with Dada Lyndell (Russia) and Winny de Jong (Netherlands) about the state of data journalism in their respective countries.

• Lusophone Data Journalism

  School of Data - 2020

  Webinar featuring data journalists from Portugal, Brazil, and Mozambique, discussing the challenges faced in each country.

• Behind the Scenes: Reporters Who Exposed Europe's COVID-19 Spending

  International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) - 2020

  Webinar about collaborating with a European consortium to investigate government spending during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Unicorns and Superpowers: Lessons from Data Journalism in Portugal

  European Journalism Observatory - 2019

  Article written at the invitation of the European Journalism Observatory and republished by the Global Investigative Journalism Network, detailing the challenges of creating a data team in a national Portuguese media outlet.

• Journalism and Open Data

  Open Data Day - 2019

  Presentation delivered on Open Data Day, a day dedicated to celebrating open data and its importance to society, discussing the experience of creating the first open data portal for a Portuguese media outlet.

• Newsroom Hacks - How Data Journalism Was Bootstrapped at Renascença

  GDG Devfest - 2019

  Presented the experience and challenges of creating a data team at Rádio Renascença at an event hosted by the Google Developer Group in Portugal.