Africa-Press – Mozambique. Ethics in journalism in the internet age” is the title of the debate that brings together Mia Couto, Jeremias Langa, Rogério Sitoe, and Maria Cremilde Massinge. Moderated by Tomás Vieira Mário, the debate will take place on Monday at 5 p.m. at the School of Communication and Arts.
The debate session is part of the celebrations of the centenary of Fernando Leite Couto, the poet, journalist, and mentor of several generations of Mozambicans. The event is part of various actions planned by the Fernando Leite Couto Foundation in his honor, focusing on three pillars that marked his performance in public life, namely: Journalism, Literature, and Mentoring.
The event aims to share with the student community, media professionals, researchers, and teachers the different facets that characterized the patron of the Fernando Leite Couto Foundation since the fifties, in the print and radio press, collaborating in various newspapers and media institutions in the cities of Beira and Lourenço Marques (now Maputo).
Fernando Leite Couto was the journalist sent by the newspaper Notícias to cover the ceremony of the Lusaka Accords on September 7, 1974, between the Portuguese Government and the Mozambique Liberation Front. He was a teacher and director of the Journalism School in Maputo, which at the time also trained journalists from other Portuguese-speaking African countries, namely Angola, São Tomé Príncipe, Guinea-Bissau, and Cape Verde.
Journalist Tomás Vieira Mário will moderate the debate, which will consist of a panel of national media professionals, including university lecturer at ECA-UEM, Maria Cremilda Massingue, Rogério Sitoe, journalist and President of the Superior Council of Social Communication, Jeremias Langa, President of MISA-Mozambique and Southern Africa, as well as the writer Mia Couto.
The speakers are media professionals who mostly attended the Journalism School at the time under the direction of Fernando Leite Couto, with experience spanning different phases of technological development in the field of media, from the analog era to the digital age.”
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