Carlos Pinto Coelho


Carlos Pinto Coelho was a Portuguese journalist, writer, photographer and media personality.

Life and career

Carlos Pinto Coelho was born in Lisbon and lived until he was 19 in Portuguese Mozambique, African Portuguese colony. In 1963 he returned to Portugal to study law at Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.
He made his debut in journalism in January 1968 as a reporter in the Lisbon daily newspaper Diário de Notícias. He was drafted as a second lieutenant of the Portuguese Army and served in the Portuguese Colonial War in the war in Mozambique. After the Carnation Revolution in 1975 he was one of the founders of the daily newspaper Jornal Novo as head of international news desk. Until 1977 he also worked on the editorial staff of the ANI news agency, on the editorial staff of the weekly news magazine Vida Mundial and was one of the Portuguese correspondents for Radio Deutsche Welle. In 1982 he became executive director of Mais news magazine.
At RTP – Radiotelevisão Portuguesa Portuguese public television he was deputy head of News, chief editor of the daily news program Informação/2, director of Programs and director of International Relations and African Cooperation. He was the author and host of the award-winning daily cultural newscast "Acontece".

Radio

Editor and host of programs at radios TSF, Rádio Comercial, RDP/ Antena 1, TDM/Rádio Macau, and from October 1998 until his death, the weekly Program "Agora Acontece" broadcast across 92 local radio stations in continental Portugal, Azores, Madeira, Macau and Spanish Extremadura.

Teaching

Lecturer at the Institut for High Military Studies. Professor of journalism at ETIC and at the Politecnical Institut of Tomar.
He was a member of the Opinion Council at RDP- Portuguese public radio, of the Board of the Portuguese Society of Authors and of the National Board of Portuguese Historical Discoveries.

Other assignments

He became a Comendador of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique in 2000, Officier of the French "Ordre des Arts et des Lettres", and received the "Bordalo" award for Television and the Grand Prize "Gazeta" and the Career Award/Manuel Pinto de Azevedo Jr.. He has the Gold Medal of the City of Amadora.

Published books

Since 1981 his photographic works went public on 49 solo exhibitions and 7 collective exhibitions, in Portugal, Madeira, Spain, Finland and Mozambique.