Who we would like to talk to, and why
Kept by incident.media@web-summit.dinis, 2026-11-11, 02:20 UTC. Nobody here has been contacted. A person sends every message (Dinis Cruz, or someone he names); the drafts are in drafts. Bodies and public professional roles only. A reporter appears by the by-line printed on a public article about this storm, with the one question that article raises; nothing else about anyone is kept, and no contact details: each is reached through the body's or the outlet's own public contact page, linked from its page here. Not a warning service: follow IPMA ↗ and ANEPC ↗.
The order is by what an answer would change on this site: first the answers that turn evidence into fact.
Bodies that decide or warn
| Who (a body, through its press office) | Why them | The first question | All questions |
|---|---|---|---|
| IPMA, communication office | the only primary source for the warnings; its meteorologists spoke to broadcasters on the night | At what time did IPMA first say the track had moved south, and to whom? Its own channels had not changed when the broadcasters reported it | meteorology |
| ANEPC, press office | recommended on events; holds the incident counts | On what criteria, and when, was it recommended that large events be suspended on Wednesday? | civil protection |
| Ministry of Internal Administration, press office | the alert declaration; the recommendation to Web Summit | When, and in what form, was the recommendation to suspend Web Summit communicated? We have one press report and no page | government |
| Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, municipal civil protection | tunnels, riverside, the mayor's statement of about 13:00 | Is there a public record of the mayor's statement and its time? | civil protection |
| Web Summit, media team | the decision | At about what time was the decision on Day 2 taken, and in what order was it announced (email, page, app, social)? | event safety |
| Metropolitano de Lisboa, Carris, CP, Fertagus, Transtejo Soflusa, Lusoponte, ANA, press offices | Wednesday's service and Thursday's restart | A link to each service notice of Wednesday, with its time | transport |
Newsrooms, for what their public work shows
Each row rests on a published item in the tables of who was first. The question is about how the news travelled, not about anyone's sources: a newsroom is free not to answer.
| Who (as printed) | The public work | The question it raises |
|---|---|---|
| Jornal de Negócios, its live desk | the only report we found of the government's recommendation before the decision (live entry, 17:53); first on the mayor's line (13:19) | Was the recommendation announced in public (where, when), or reported from a source? It decides whether we can ever cite a primary source for it |
| Diário de Notícias, its live desk | first we read on the red wind warning (08:05) and on the schools closing (09:14) | IPMA's own message is timed 07:18. Where does a newsroom first see a warning change: the site, an alert, a call? |
| ECO, by-line Tiago Alexandre Pereira; TEK Notícias, by-line Fátima Caçador | the first two articles on Day 2 being called off, both 19:41, about half an hour after the organisers' page | Did the news reach you through the organisers' email, their page, or otherwise? The page sat outside the site's news list |
| Jornal Económico, by-line José Carlos Lourinho | the first article on the mayor's statement (13:23) | Where was the statement made, and is there a recording or a release? |
| Observador, its live desk and Rádio Observador | the earliest text attributing the track's shift south to IPMA (22:35), from the radio's own interview | At what time was the interview recorded? It would date IPMA's first public word on the shift |
| RTP, Antena 1's newsroom | the 22:00 bulletin titled on the track's shift, published 22:22 | Who at IPMA spoke, in what role, and at what time? |
| Lusa, the national desk | the wire under about half of the items whose by-line we read | Are the wire's own send times public? Outlets publish the same dispatch minutes to hours apart, and only the wire's time would say who was fast |
| Expresso, CNN Portugal | the two headlines that say less wind for Lisbon (23:54 and 00:31) | Whose assessment is it: IPMA's, or an expert's reading? IPMA's red warnings for Lisbon stood |
| The outlets we could not read: SIC Notícias, Jornal de Notícias, TSF, Renascença | their sites refuse an automated reader; Renascença runs the only purpose-built tracker of the storm | May we read your feed for a public record of who reported what and when, and under what terms? |
Experts, in a public professional role
No expert is named here yet: we have not read who the press quotes (titles say "especialista" without a name). The task is open to contributors (C-10). The kinds of expert we would ask, and the questions, are in the outreach index: atmospheric scientists independent of the forecast, event-safety practitioners, structural engineers.
The licences, for anyone we approach
Every outlet's terms as it publishes them, and what its robots.txt tells crawlers, are on its page. The short of it: every Portuguese outlet whose terms we could read reserves all rights and allows private use only; several name and disallow AI crawlers. Wikipedia's text is CC BY-SA 4.0 and may be reused and changed with credit (research/wikipedia). So with the press we quote a title and link; with Wikipedia we may copy and adapt. Anything more from an outlet starts with a message from a person.