Rádios 'piratas' e jornalismo radiofónico na década 80: ruturas e continuidades

Abstract

The 1980s of the twentieth century represented a transformation in the Portuguese radio panorama with the emergence of pirate radio or free radio. Over the decade, illegal broadcasters found their space and asserted themselves as a voice for the population. Among the hundreds of radio stations broadcasting throughout the country, there are examples of amateur and voluntary radio stations, more structured projects, and entirely professional radio stations that do not claim to be as pirate radio stations. If some reproduced what they heard on national stations, others broke with established canons and innovated. The teaching of radio journalism accompanied this entire process. Pirates were the engine for the emergence of courses in the area. In this chapter we conclude that radio and radio journalism changed with the pirates and we identify 8 points that correspond to what changed in the way of doing journalism and how these radios were a 'school' for a generation.