Oscar without accent if you please – Daily News – Lisbon

On October 10, 1989, Oscar Mascarenhas received the trainee who sent out to present themselves at 15.00. He was assistant editor of Policy section, then the more “noble” of the Daily News, and explained to the journalist seeker what this would do for the next three months. Patiently, as was the custom when he taught the profession to younger, he said the rules of journalistic ethics that wanted to see fulfilled as tutelasse the stage. Especially enthused talking about the profession who now writes this farewell.

This is the same memory of the former journalist of the International DN Lumena Raposo. Who was doing the coverage of the 1992 elections in Israel and took into Oscar Mascarenhas the “one main writer who insisted on correcting my work.”

There is, incidentally, the only memory that has the journalist who made the most of his journalistic career of 40 years in the DN and yesterday died suddenly with cardiac arrest. A death at 65 all surprised that before the end of the morning were confronted with the news. Where most media outlets respected one his crusade, to write him well named: “. Oscar without accent if you please”

Lumena Raposo also reminds one of the works that Mascarenhas made without network : the attack of 11 September 2001. In the journalist was the first professional Portuguese coming to Ground Zero in New York with the photographer Rui Coutinho, even if the false start of the 13th – a forbidden trip already on the Azores by US authorities – it has only verified 15, a day that colleague remembers as if it were yesterday: “We went directly to the site, even if it was impossible to get as close as we wished in the early hours.” Coutinho remembers leaving the hotel at 5 am in order to counter the time difference and send the service. But it was not only in this adventure the duo embarked since minutes after learning of the earthquake that shook the Azores in 1998 both caught the first plane with the clothes they were wearing.

Also the journalist DN Leonídio Paulo Ferreira left your hands while intern: “It was one of the newspaper’s reference figures and highlighted by the rich writing, which used in what was better, the report and chronic remember me have criticized in a report. India because I was too in chronological narrative and learned my lesson. “