Einat Lachover, member of the international Magazine Media Research Network (MagNet), will serve as guest editor for a special issue of the journal Journalism and Media titled Women's Magazines in Transition: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Journalism and Media is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly published by MDPI. Lachover will co-edit the issue with Kimberly Voss, which seeks contributions examining the evolution of women’s magazines across historical periods and media formats.

Fourteen members of MagNet (Magazine Media Research Network) presented communications at the XIV SOPCOM Congress – Communication and Time, held from 9 to 11 February 2026 at the Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI) in Covilhã, Portugal. The event is the main national conference in communication sciences in Portugal and brought together researchers, teachers and professionals to discuss themes at the intersection of communication and temporality.

Lusófona University led a FilmEU+ mobility project for the first time. The initiative, titled "Interconnected Journalism: reconnecting people to and through the media," was led by MagLab (part of CICANT) and established a cross-border collaboration between faculty from Estonia’s Baltic Film, Media and Arts School (TLU BFM) and Ireland’s Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT).

Pedro Eduardo Ribeiro, a PhD candidate and member of the international Magazine Media Research Network (MagNet), presented the communication “The Realization of Affect through Instagram Comments: The Case of Patrícia Mamona in Women’s Health” at the Congress Migration and Communication in a Planetary Age: Debates and Actions.