Throughout this text, one articulates the practice of media education and media literacy with the notion of citizenship by electing the regional press and educational institutions, including universities throughout the national territory, as privileged protagonists for development this interaction. Following suggestions from Buckingham quoted Smith and Rothberg (in Christofelletti and Mota, 2008) one argues that the implementation of observatories for regional press is no longer confined to monitoring of journalistic activity, opening also spaces for learning and reflection on the media, focusing on central issues such as production routines, language and representation and the role attributed to the audience. Therefore, on argues that the creation of media observatory to regional press in Portugal can play a key role in analyzing the performance of the media and encouraging dialogues between readers, researchers and professionals. In order to substantiate the possibilities and limits of such cooperation, the paper reports an investigation that is being developed at the University of Beira Interior, focusing on regional newspapers spread throughout the Portuguese territory. This research focuses on the practices and the identification of news routines and frameworks. On the other hand, it also implies reception studies designed to enable the search for new angles representing the forgotten social groups as subjects of their history. With that research one reflects on the possibility and need of a form of journalism that tends to favour the forgotten "stories"nd informal dynamics of civil society at the expense of some kind of information overly dependent on the primary definers.

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