Dennis Redmont is the first guest of Mario Chessa’s new podcast. A conversation on more than five decades reporting from over 80 countries, the stories behind the headlines, the lessons of a lifetime of travel, and how openness, curiosity and genuine human connections can broaden our understanding of the world.

Dennis Redmont and Vasco Abecassis, co-founder of Publicações Dom Quixote, join hosts Miguel Moniz and Gilberto Fernandes to discuss the foreign press coverage of the Colonial Wars, PIDE’s harassment of journalists, the Estado Novo’s propaganda efforts in the American press, and how their publications challenged the Salazar regime despite censorship. They also reflect on the current crisis of legacy media.

A podcast by Miguel Franco de Andrade detailing how the regime’s censorship of the 1967 floods death toll—where Dennis Redmont served as a key international source—enraged the youth and helped trigger the April 1974 revolution.

Dennis Redmont receives the Medal of Cultural Merit from the Mayor of Lisbon, Carlos Moedas.

On reporting under a dictatorship and protecting sources when the police knock.