Afonso Camões abandons post of Chairman of the Board of … – iOnline

Afonso Camões abandons post of Chairman of the Board of … – iOnline

The Chairman of the Board of Directors of Lusa, Afonso Camões, announced today in a letter to employees, who resigned the post he has held since March 2009

“Workers of Lusa want to express my deep appreciation for the way we did together, “said Afonso Camões, who is administrator of Lusa since September 2005 and Chairman of the Board of Directors for five years.

Without revealing the reasons that lead him to leave the agency, Camões highlights what, according to him, was able to achieve with all workers Lusa: “good services”, “good accounts” without ever losing view the “sense of the public interest, contractual obligations with the State” and with customers.

Afonso Camões also recalled the notice issued to shareholders in the last general meeting of the company: “It is now clear that the Lusa is sustainable, but the state is not paying the actual cost of services provided by the Agency “.

“It was not the financial imbalance caused by factors external to the current management”, our budget compliance and positive operating results have already allowed us to return to profit – even this year, “he added.

“Together, the agency modernized and deepened in exemplary fashion, the transition of our services for the media and for all platforms, which, incidentally, earned honorable in the European Prize for Innovation and Excellence” wrote Afonso Camões.

Before reaching the Lusa in 2005, Afonso Camões was managing director at Controlinveste Media, with editorial responsibilities in the area and group management functions in companies of the Journal of Fundão, eastern Azorean ( Açormédia) and Daily News / Wood (EDN), between August 2005 and April 2009, a period which also assumed a vice-presidency of the Portuguese Press Association.

As a journalist began to collaborate in the journal Fundão and Reconquista and was founder of the “Praxis, journal of the Faculty of Economics of Porto (1976-78).

obtained the professional title of journalist in O Primeiro de Janeiro (1979) and it was a permanent employee of The Journal, between 1982 and 1985 was part of the founding team of the Weekly, as head of the delegation of Porto and later was editor of the Express, with responsibility for the creation and coordination of Network Express regional information.