Acting Director of Lusa with a favourable opinion of ERC

O acting director of Lusa, Pedro Sousa Carvalho, had a favorable opinion from the ERC, informed the administration today, stating that the entry of the new director who will form his team of deputies will be communicated in due course.

In a statement to the workers, the Board of Directors welcomed the deliberations of the Regulatory Body for Social Communication (ERC) which gave a favourable opinion to the appointment of journalist Diana Ramos (so far director of the Business Journal) for the position of Director of Information of Lusa and journalist Pedro Sousa Carvalho (so far chief editor of Lusa) for the role of Acting Director of Lusa – who is in office.

Opportunely, it goes ahead, the entry into office of the “new director who, of course, will form his team of assistants to work with journalists who ensure daily a quality work increasingly relevant to the media and other entities that subscribe to the news service of the Portuguese news agency”, the administration finishes.

The members of the Board of Directors “thank Lusa professionals (in particular journalists) for their dedication in ensuring the normal functioning of news production in recent days.”.

On Friday, the administration of Lusa invited journalist Pedro Sousa Carvalho, current editor, to the agency's interim director of information, on the day the current interim director's term of office ended, composed by Nuno Simas and Maria de Deus Rodrigues, following the departure of information director Luísa Meireles.

The ERC today gave its assent to the appointment of journalist Diana Ramos as Lusa's Director of Information.

“There are no indications of reasons to prevent this body from, in accordance with and for the purposes of Article 24(3)(l) of the Statute of the ERC, giving its assent to the appointment of Diana Ramos for the exercise of the position of Director of Information of the Lusa agency”, says the ERC in the deliberation.

The agency's Board of Directors invited Diana Ramos, the director of the Business Journal, to the Agency's Director of Information after Luísa Meireles left on October 12.