Journalist Pedro Fonseca, who specialized in the social impact of new technologies, died of cancer at the age of 61, last Thursday evening. The funeral will be on Saturday, from 7pm, in the Church of Christ the King in Portela de Sacavim and the funeral tomorrow at 3:45pm in the Alto de São João Cemetery, in Lisbon.
Pedro Fonseca has been a regular contributor to PÚBLICO, especially since its founding in 1990, when the newspaper sought to assert itself in the Portuguese media landscape. Between 1990 and 1995, he was a constant presence independent On the pages of PÚBLICOincluding in the Department of Science, between 2003 and 2006 in Computersa weekly supplement devoted to information technology by the newspaper. More recently (between 2018 and 2019), he collaborated again with the newspaper.
However, Pedro Fonseca's CV goes far beyond collaboration with a single media outlet. Among other general newspapers, he wrote for News diaryonly He crosses Or extinct DC (He was editor of the Info&Net supplement.) It is also already extinct Economic Weekly (where he was technology editor) and Economic diary It was part of his journey.
In other, more specific, technology journalistic projects, Pedro Fonseca has been a founder: this is the case, for example, of the channel Tech Sabo (which he edited between 1998 and 2000) and the magazine. a little (which he edited between 1998 and 1999). In the magazine IT examIn the mid-1990s, he was also editor. Most recently, between 2010 and 2016, he was the magazine's editor-in-chief Computer World Portugal. In addition to many other media in which he cooperated independentHe also prepared radio programs such as: Podcast Digital notes (in 2006), television, such as Knowledge adventures (For RTP2, between 1991 and 1994).
Passionate about technology journalism, to which he has skillfully devoted himself throughout his career beginning in 1990, and a speaker and moderator at countless conferences on new technology. middle And one Blogger Active until the end of his life, Pedro Fonseca was also the author and editor of several books.
As an editor we find State of the Internet 2020 (2020), What if… the scenario of 2021, and the future of 2024 (2020), Inclinations (2021), State of the Internet 2021 (2021), You must not tell lies (2021) Finally, MMXXII trends (2022). As an author, he wrote books Banned blogs (2007), Misinformation in light of the epidemic (2020) and registered (2021). All of these books except Banned blogsAvailable node Website Which he created around 2018 – TICtank, where we can appreciate the last years of his work, spanning more than three decades, as a technology journalist.
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