Formerly a journalist, Helena Sousa is now associate professor at the Department of Communications Sciences, University of Minho, Portugal. Her main teaching and research are related with Political Economy, Media Policy, International Information and Media Sociology. Recently, she has written about Portuguese and EU media policy and about media structures and content production in Portuguese speaking countries (Lusophone cultural area). In addition to teaching and research, Helena Sousa is vice-president of the University of Minho’s School of Social Sciences. She has served as Head of the Communication Sciences Department and has been actively involved in the setting up and management of several graduate and post-graduate teaching programmes. She is a member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Communication and vice-president of the Political Economy Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research.