# 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](drafts.md). 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 ↗](https://www.ipma.pt/) and [ANEPC ↗](https://prociv.gov.pt/).

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](README.md) |
| **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](README.md) |
| **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](README.md) |
| **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](README.md) |
| **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](README.md) |
| **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](README.md) |

## Newsrooms, for what their public work shows

Each row rests on a published item in [the tables of who was first](../research/media/ranking.md). 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](../research/media/outlets/negocios.md), 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](../research/media/outlets/dn.md), 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](../research/media/outlets/eco.md), by-line Tiago Alexandre Pereira; [TEK Notícias](../research/media/outlets/tek.md), 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](../research/media/outlets/jornal-economico.md), 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](../research/media/outlets/observador.md), 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](../research/media/outlets/rtp.md), 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](../research/media/outlets/lusa.md), 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](../research/media/outlets/expresso.md), [CNN Portugal](../research/media/outlets/cnn-portugal.md) | 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](../research/media/outlets/sic-noticias.md), [Jornal de Notícias](../research/media/outlets/jn.md), [TSF](../research/media/outlets/tsf.md), [Renascença](../research/media/outlets/renascenca.md) | 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](../contribute.md)). The kinds of expert we would ask, and the questions, are in [the outreach index](README.md): 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](../research/media/outlets/index.html). 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](../research/wikipedia/index.html)). 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.