Dr Carla Maria dos Santos Filipe Baptista
IAS Residential Fellow
University Nova of Lisbon
Carla Baptista is an Associate Professor in Communication Sciences at NOVA FSCH in Lisbon and a senior researcher at ICNOVA. She teaches Media History and Journalism Ethics in the undergraduate course and Media, Journalism and Technology in the Communication Sciences Master.
She is also a freelance journalist and a member of the editorial board of the Portuguese edition of the French newspaper Le Monde Diplomatique. She is the author of several books, including Journalists, from the Craft to the Profession (2007), Living Memories of Journalists (2009) and Death and Resurrection of Political Journalism (2011).
She wrote chapters for several books, namely Gender in Focus: New Trends on Media (2016), Feminine Politics (2018) and Press, Political Crisis and Coup in Brazil (2019), Women in the International Film Industry (2020) and Transforming Magazines (2022). Her research interests include media and journalism history; media, gender and politics; and media and culture. She has recently co-coordinated a research project funded by the Portuguese Science Foundation on Portuguese journalism history across the XX century.
During their IAS Fellowship, Associate Professor Baptista is collaborating with Professor James Stanyer from the Department of Communication and Media.