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Professor of Journalism at the Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences at the University of Porto, Portugal, teaching online journalism since 2002

Ph.D. in Information and Communication on Digital Platforms (Online Journalism), University of Porto, 2011

M.A. in Communication Sciences (Online Journalism), University of Minho, 2007

Graduated in Social Communication, University of Minho, 1996

Journalist at Lusa, the Portuguese news agency, from 1988 to 2011

Coordinator of the academic news website JornalismoPortoNet, since 2004

Founder and coordinator of the ObCiber - Observatório do Ciberjornalismo, since 2008

Online Journalism Researcher at CETAC.Media - Centro de Estudos das Tecnologias e Ciências da Comunicação, since 2005

Author of the books "Vilar de Mouros: 35 Anos de Festivais" (2003) and "Ciberjornalismo: As potencialidades da Internet nos sites noticiosos portugueses" (2008)

Author of the blogs "JornalismoPortoNet Weblog", "A Tenda dos Índios" and "Vilar de Mouros"

Author of several research papers, some of them in English:

ZAMITH, Fernando - A methodological proposal to analyze the news websites' use of the potentialities of the Internet, 9th International Symposium on Online Journalism, 2008, University of Texas at Austin. http://online.journalism.utexas.edu/2008/papers/Zamith.pdf

ZAMITH, Fernando et al. - The cyberjournal as a teaching tool: from technique to practice, II Congreso Iberoamericano de Periodismo Digital, 2004, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela.

http://bocc.ubi.pt/pag/zamith-fernando-cyberjournal-teaching-tool.pdf