Lisbon, June 24, 2025 (Lusa) - RTP’s news department, led by António José Teixeira, was dismissed on Tuesday, a company source told Lusa, providing no further details.
António José Teixeira had been RTP’s editor-in-chief for more than five years, and RTP appointed him to the position on 7 January 2020.
The changes are part of the organisational changes that RTP planned.
According to the same source, the source has already made an invitation to replace him.
Lusa contacted António José Teixeira and RTP president Nicolau Santos, and both declined to make statements.
On 7 January 2020, RTP’s management, led by Gonçalo Reis, appointed António José Teixeira as director of information, as well as deputy directors Adília Godinho and Joana Garcia (with daily news and RTP3), Carlos Daniel (with non-daily news programmes) and Hugo Gilberto (with the Porto newsroom and sports), and as deputy directors Luísa Bastos and Rui Romano.
This appointment followed RTP’s proposal on 19 December 2019 to combine the management of news and programmes for RTP1 and RTP Internacional in one person, namely José Fragoso. The Regulatory Authority for the Media (ERC) took a different view.
In January 2020, António José Teixeira moved from the previous team, replacing Maria Flor Pedroso in the position, after the journalist resigned following the conflict between the director and the team of “Sexta às 9”, led at the time by Sandra Felgueiras.
RTP’s new organisation will now have 23 directors, compared to the current 30 directors and deputy directors, the Board of Directors announced today, adding that 97 employees have left under the voluntary redundancy plan.
In a statement accessed by Lusa, the body led by Nicolau Santos said that "given the objectives set out in the new Strategic Plan for the 2024-2026 three-year period and the enormous challenges facing the media, the Board of Directors believes, after careful consideration, that the time has come for the internal reorganisation of RTP".
This “urgent digital transition and the increasingly necessary optimisation of processes require an increase in the capacity to respond to new challenges in the management of the Public Media Service,” the statement said.
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