Bagabaga Studios / Divergente

DIVERGENTE is a non-profit, advert-free digital narrative journalism magazine

The are an independent project that publishes on subjects of public interest underrepresented in the media and that gives a platform to voices that usually go unheard. They have always prioritised rigour over speed in our work, embracing a slower pace. They want to take the time necessary to build close relations with the people we interview and who agree to tell us their stories.

In 2014, the commercialization of journalism and the transformation of journalists into producers of content—tasked with entertaining rather than informing—was already underway. They had already started down the path towards the extinction of journalism as a tool used to mediate the complexities of the world, to scrutinize power structures, to promote active and informed citizens. That same year, a group of people believed it was still possible to practise the sort of journalism they advocated for—a journalism that goes deeper, gives more context and encourages wider debate. And so DIVERGENTE was born.

The subjects they choose to investigate—and the way they do it—are inevitably a product of our concerns, as the team behind the project, a consequence of who they are and the worlds that cross with our own. They don’t believe journalists are born with the impartiality demanded of them. They believe it is developed and maintained through a conscious and continuous, ever present process.

They are a multidisciplinary team where journalistic investigation and attention to detail meet with creativity and innovation. Journalists, designers, programmers, illustrators and data analysts sit down at the same table, together, to discuss what story to tell, and how to do it. In an environment where artistic creation forms an integral part of journalistic work.

Country registered in: Portugal