Observer starts on Monday and wants to focus on quality – Público.pt

executive director of Observer , digital newspaper that kicks off on Monday, told Lusa expect the project to succeed, noting that the bet is to have quality “from the first minute.”

“My expectation is that we can, from the first minute, do a quality project and gradually add quality to this quality . I have high hopes that we can do some different things, look for different angles and information that is useful to people, “said David Dinis. “I hope the project is successful to the extent that readers are interested in it, participate and look through it are people with more information,” said the Executive Director.

online newspaper kicks off on Monday with a team of 24 journalists. “The Observer is essentially a project 100% digital,” stressed David Dinis, who pointed out that the newspaper will be available on any device, from desktop, laptop, tablet or smartphone with “updated information every second.” “It is also 100% digital a project where we devote ourselves entirely just a platform. Do not have the need to be working for the paper, for the sound, we have to make picture,” he added. However, “we have each of these elements incorporated within our site ” said .

Asked what differentiates Observer other projects, David Dinis made a feature of the digital newspaper, believes that “the more structuring” is to explain the news. Ie, the Observer will have a Exponent that “the essential themes will always be crossed and visible”, giving context to the topics addressed . Whenever the topic deserves an explanation, there will be answers on the subject and the reader will ease the search for them and may also suggest new issues, according to the official.

Another differentiating factors Observer is “the ability to speak to the reader,” in which this can give clues, to review and, where appropriate, the digital newspaper will respond to your readers since “the news does not die in the moment” in which are placed in site .

The Observer will still allow “the ability to ‘ link ‘”, ie, sending the reader to a different page of the competition, provided that the information is relevant, is in Portuguese, English or French.
If there is a news that the Observer has not yet given and relevant, the digital newspaper will redirect the reader to the source of the news.

“No one has to pay for Observer ,” assured David Dinis, stressing that it is a new brand that wants to be known. “We are an open project, compels us to a challenge from a business model that allows us to sustainability of the company,” he said, pointed out that the Observer will organize conferences and seek partners to support the project .

The Board of Directors is chaired by Mr Observer Carrapatoso, and its vowels Schmidt Lino Duarte, José Manuel Fernandes and Rui Ramos. Rudolf Gruner is the managing director of the project online . Last Monday, the General Assembly of the OnTime Observer , chaired by Alexandre Grasses, resolved to increase the equity (share capital and additional paid) digital newspaper for 3.2 million euros.

Among the shareholders of the project are António Pinto Leite, António Viana Baptista, Bar Bar Age I SGPS (major shareholder Carlos Moreira da Silva), Holdaco SGPS (António Champalimaud), Jorge Bleck, José Manuel Fernandes, Lusofinança ( Alexandre Filipe de Botton and Grasses), Orientempo (Antonio Carrapatoso) or Ribacapital SGPS (John Talone), among others. The Supervisory Board of the project has as president Jaime Gama and Luís Amado while vowel.