Rita Araújo, who has a PhD in Communication Sciences, is a researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre of the University of Minho. Her research interests are health communication and journalism, news sources, and health literacy. She was a visiting scholar at Hunter College, the City University School of Public Health, New York, and she was a member of the Portuguese research team of the Health Reporting Training Project (2010-3675 HeaRT), which was financed by the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning Program. She was a researcher within the national project Disease in the News (PTDC/CCI-COM/103886/2008), which was financed by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia. She is author and co-author of several publications in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters, and she has presented her research at many national and international conferences.