Fernando Zamith was born in Luanda, in 1964. He began his academic training at the Escola Superior de Jornalismo, Porto, has a degree in Social Communication and a masters degree in Communication Sciences from the University of Minho, and a PhD in Information and Communication on Digital Platforms from the University of Porto. Between 1988 and 2011, he was a professional journalist at the Lusa news agency, in Porto and for two years (1995-97) in Maputo. He was also a journalist for the newspaper "Vida Económica" and the magazine "Metro" and editor-in-chief of the magazine "Empresário". He has been a professor of Journalism at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto (FLUP) since 2002, where he helds, since 2023, the positions of Director of the Master's Degree in Communication Sciences and member of the Executive Committee of the Department of Communication and Information Sciences ( DCCI). He was a member of the FLUP Council of Representatives (2017-18), director of the DCCI (2014-19) and scientific coordinator of the CETAC.Media research unit (2014-16). He is an associate professor at FLUP, where he teaches the curricular units of Online Journalistic Expression Techniques (first degree), Comparative Journalism (first degree), Specialized Journalism Seminar (masters degree) and Cyberjournalism Laboratory (masters degree). He has also taught Journalism Atelier (first degree), Political Communication Seminar (masters degree) and Media and Society (doctoral degree). In 2016, he taught two curricular units of the Masters Degree in Economic Journalism and Financial Information at the University of Cape Verde. He is the author of the books "Vilar de Mouros: 35 anos de festivais" (2003), "Ciberjornalismo: As Potentialidades da Internet nos Sites Noticiosos Portugueses" (2008) and "A Contextualização no Ciberjornalismo" (2013) and co-organizer of the books "Ciberjornalismo, modelos de negócio e redes sociais" (2012) and "Ameaças ao Ciberjornalismo" (2019). He is also Director of the Cyberjournalism Observatory (ObCiber), co-organizer of the International Cyberjournalism Congresses and author of dozens of scientific articles and book chapters. He supervised dozens of post-doctoral, doctoral and master's theses and dissertations. He is a researcher at the Information, Communication and Digital Culture Group of the R&D unit CITCEM ¿ Center for Transdisciplinary Research Culture, Space and Memory. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the CIC.Digital research unit and a member of the Advisory Board of the MIL-Media Innovation Labs at the University of Porto. He is a member of the Editorial Board of JornalismoPortoNet (JPN), an online media outlet for which he was the general coordinator since its foundation, in 2004, until 2011. He is a member of the Artigo37 team, an online platform founded in 2021 to denounce restrictions on freedom of information in Portugal. He is also a member of the juries for the Cyberjournalism Awards (ObCiber), the EAPN Portugal Journalism Awards and the RR/SCML Young Journalism Awards.