Luis Miguel Loureiro

Portuguese state television RTP [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A1dio_e_Televis%C3%A3o_de_Portugal] [http://www.rtp.pt] Journalist and Media researcher at the University of Minho [http://www.uminho.pt] , Braga, Portugal.

Luis Miguel Loureiro did the news live reporting for RTP television and RDP national radio from Beirut, and Tyre [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyre%2C_Lebanon] , Lebanon during the final two weeks of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War until after the UN negotiated ceasefire. He was also awarded at the 2006 UNESCO "Journalism For Human Rights Prize" [http://www.ics.pt/verfs.php?fscod=918&lang=pt] and the AMI [http://www.fundacao-ami.org] "Journalism Against Indifference Prize" for his in-depth journalistic reporting on social issues such as longlasting drug abuse.

Career in Journalism

Luis Miguel Loureiro started as a professional Journalist in 1992, in the Porto based FM news radio Rádio Nova [http://www.radionova.fm] . Some of his missions included special reporting during the historical "" national Congress, April 1994 and the 1st Portuguese/Morocco Political Summit in Rabat, Morocco, June 1994. He was also one of the radio's early morning newscasters, between 1992 and 1994. His 1993 investigation on scandal of the transfer of a renowned football player, Futre, to the Portuguese club Benfica, indirectly paid by national public TV broadcaster RTP, led to the exoneration of the latter Executive BoardFact|date=November 2007.In 1994 he joined the national Radio Comercial [http://www.radiocomercial.iol.pt] Porto newsroom. The assignement of Spain's 1996 national elections and an investigation on the role of political marketing during the Portuguese 1995 national elections (who led to the fall of the entire marketing team of the social-democrat party (PSD [http://www.psd.pt] ).From 1997 on he's been working as a Reporter for the national TV public broadcaster RTP.