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João Macdonald
João Macdonald (Porto, Portugal, 1974) is a Lisbon-based culture journalist. Since 2004 he is the editor for Agenda LX, Lisbon’s city guide, and for Check-In, the Portuguese national airports’ magazine. He also works as a freelance TV reporter and as film documentarist.

He started working in 1994 at Jornal de Notícias national newspaper. In 1996 he moved to Lisbon to become assistant editor at weekly newspaper Já. Since then he has been a contributor or reporter for more than twenty publications, like Blitz, DNa and Notícias Magazine (Diário de Notícias), Ícon or Os Meus Livros.

In TV, he has a long time relationship with national network SIC and cable channel SIC Notícias, where he worked in culture shows since 2000. He as also worked as a scriptwriter for several comedy shows in SIC Radical cable channel, as well as for the 2004 Rock In Rio Lisbon TV broadcast.

The music business is also one of his grounds of activities. As a researcher and liner notes writer for record company EMI, he has participated in the complete works reissue of fado musicians Carlos Paredes, Luiz Goes and Maria Teresa de Noronha.

In 2003, he coordinated the press department for ExperimentaDesign - Lisbon Biennial.

As a documentarist, he worked in the films Luiz Pacheco - Mais um Dia de Noite (Panavídeo), Palácio de Belém and As Primeiras Damas (these two produced by Bustrope company for the Presidency of the Portuguese Republic). Right now, he is finishing Ballet Gulbenkian - 40 Anos (Bustrope/Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian), and starting the pre-production of his own first film, João Brandão, Capitão da Beira Trágica, the biography of a 19th century politician.

His first book, D. João I, a biography of the 14th/15th century Portuguese king, will be published in 2006 by Planeta de Agostini.