The Porto.pt application is a port of arrival for positive information from the city of Porto. Produced by the Municipal Department of Communication and Promotion of the Porto City Council, it has its own production of news content (texts, photography and video). The portal was also a place for the dissemination and promotion of information from third parties, such as city institutions (whether or not supported by the municipality); information about Porto, disseminated by the media in Portugal or abroad and content created by the so-called "participatory journalism", disseminated on blogs, social networks or other informal online media.