Oscar Mascarenhas, journalist – Jornal de Negócios – Portugal

The best teacher for interns. A journalist who filled the wording. With whom there was no middle ground. Oscar Mascarenhas, December 9, 1949, May 5, 2015.

Determined, controversial, with ethical and deontological principles hard, consistent, generous, hard fighter and a master to whom he interned with. The journalist Oscar Mascarenhas, who died unexpectedly at age 65, May 5, and is remembered by those who worked with him and shared life.

The judge Eurico Reis, who joined the Commission of Professional Journalist Portfolio recalls Oscar Mascarenhas as “determined, consistent and fighter.” The “defense of truly free and independent journalism” was one of the battles of his long career started in 1975 in the newspaper “A Capital”.

In addition to the world of journalism, Eurico Reis also participated in School Parents Association where their children studied. Their fighter qualities there also were demonstrating, recalls, “in defense of an education that gives our children the ability to understand the world and act on it intelligently and with values.”

Born in Goa on December 9, 1949, he left the law school in the middle to start the journalistic activity. It’s in the Daily News, which he joined in 1982, which does most of his career.

Joao Fragoso Mendes and Jose Antonio Santos, two journalists who worked with Oscar Mascarenhas at the Daily News , remember the times when were editing each other’s stories. Led to the DN the “Special holed” expression, to identify who would be the wording to support the “special envoys” who were doing the story on the ground.

“It was an act of friendship of nobility, “recalls José António Santos. Very generous, says, “refuge in a razor-sharp writing and sometimes even ruthless toward those who thought they were unfaithful to the values ​​for which he fought.” John Fragoso Mendes was his colleague, his publisher, his director. Wrote about politics. “We read and editávamos texts to each other,” he recalls. While on direction Oscar was his “talking cricket.” It was the “best master’s DN, luck had trainees who have passed through their hands, because they were to know more than others.”