Luís Miguel Loureiro is a Portuguese state television (

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) journalist and

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researcher at the

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. He conducted live reporting for RTP television and RDP national radio from

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, and Tyre,

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during the final two weeks of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War until after the UN negotiated ceasefire. He was also awarded two honourable mentions at the 2006

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''Journalism for Human Rights Prize'' and the AMI Foundation ''Journalism Against Indifference Prize'' for his in-depth journalistic reporting on social issues such as long-lasting drug abuse and its effects on human dignity, public health, and society.

Career in journalism

Loureiro started as a professional journalist in 1992, at the

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-based Rádio Nova. Some of his missions included special reporting during the historical '' Portugal: Que Futuro?'' national Congress, April 1994 and the 1st Portuguese/Morocco Political Summit in Rabat,

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, June 1994. He was also one of the radio's early morning newscasters, between 1992 and 1994. His 1993 investigation on the transfer of a renowned football player,

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, to the Portuguese club Benfica, indirectly paid by national public TV broadcaster RTP, led to th
exoneration of the latter Executive Board
In 1994 he joined the national Radio Comercial Porto newsroom. The assignment for

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's 1996 national elections and an investigation on the role of political marketing during the Portuguese 1995 national elections (who led to the fall of the entire marketing team of the social-democrat party (

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). From 1997 on he works mainly as a reporter for the national TV public broadcaster RTP. From 1998 to 2000 he anchored the public service program "Consultório", an audience-forum broadcast, on environmental and sustainability issues, presenting the first-ever debate on one of the would-be polemics of Portugal's new millennium politics:.waste incineration His main assignments as a national TV senior reporter were being a war correspondent in Beirut and Tyre (Lebanon) during the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War, special reporting from

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and

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areas on the effects and recovery process from the 2004 Asian tsunami catastrophe in

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, and an in-depth report on the living conditions of a far-North cod-

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community, the town of Batsfjord, in the

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region of

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. He authored several in-depth breakthrough stories on themes such as the

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veterans, the increasing phenomenon of Portuguese medical students going abroad (in the

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and

) and the multi-awarded special report "Flutuantes", on the effects of long-lasting drug abuse on middle-aged Portuguese homeless addicts. Luis Miguel Loureiro is now also a

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PhD student and

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teacher at the

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, in Braga, Portugal.

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