In 2011, I'm sure the date went unnoticed. But today, 10 years later, celebrating this day has become as important as thanking everyone who helped make this beautiful dream come true, which I was lucky enough to join.
Today the Sul Informação commemorates 10 years of existence, a round, beautiful date that should be noted (I wanted the destination to be on a municipal day…).
It's been 10 years of real struggle for an impartial and free journalism. It's 10 years of work, in the truest sense of the word.
On previous occasions, I got used to reading what the three great mentors of this project – my comrades Elisabete, Hugo and Nuno – wrote on each birthday.
This time, it's me who gives my vision: that of someone who, not being in the genesis of the newspaper, has been part of it for five years.
I found myself going to the calendar.
That Monday, September 26, 2011, when the Sul Informação was born, had started, a few days ago, the 11th grade at Escola Secundária de Loulé.
If you already knew you wanted to be a journalist? Yes. Did you imagine that one day you would work here? Not.
Almost five years later, already graduated in Journalism, it was here that I started to fulfill this dream and I want to tell you that being a journalist in Sul Informação it is, every day, a renewed pleasure.
Here, I found a team of experienced professionals who taught me everything they knew. Here, I also made friends and realized that, yes, camaraderie and a good atmosphere in the newsroom are central to this job in which everything is so volatile, sudden, unexpected.
And it was also here that I learned to see what it means to give everything for a cause.
It is for you, dear reader, that we work every day – from Sunday to Sunday – and that we so often abdicate the rest that surrounds us.
I know I speak for everyone: Elisabete, Hugo, Nuno, me and Ruben, our intern – the current five journalists from Sul Informação.
But a newspaper is much more than just its journalists.
Therefore, I also have to talk about Mariana, who deals with marketing and advertising, Nilton, Taciana and Nelson Inácio, our collaborators, Ana Teresa Alves, correspondent in Baixo Alentejo, Martyna, Aurélio, Pedro Duarte , by Gonçalo Duarte Gomes, all our columnists and so many friends who are also the soul of our newspaper.
O Sul Informação “reminds me of a beautiful dream” that is not over – nor will it ever be.
Because there will always be a way to do more and better and the success we achieved (forgive my immodesty) owes a lot to that.
And believe me: without you who read us we were nothing.
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