“Charlie, Islamic State and the heart of journalism”

Workshop for journalists, 20 March, 5pm-7.30pm, with Adelino Gomes

Freedom of expression and its limits came under the limelight in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the newsroom of the French satiric newspaper “Charlie Hebdo”, on 7 January 2015. With the aim to discuss the role of journalists in recent times of surging terrorism, the European Union Academic Programme in Macao (EUAP-M), in partnership with the Portuguese and English Press Association (AIPIM) and the Rui Cunha Foundation, holds on 20 March 2015, from 5pm to 7:30pm, a workshop under the title “Charlie, Islamic State and the heart of journalism” by Adelino Gomes, a Portuguese journalist and university professor.
The workshop is open to professional journalists based in Macau, and will be held at the Rui Cunha Foundation. It will be conducted in Portuguese with simultaneous interpretation into Cantonese.