UIDB/05021/2020 UIDP/05021/2020 PTDC/COM-JOR/28144/2017The object of this communication is Freedom of the Portuguese press during the transition period, in Macau from 1987 to 1999. I was a journalist in Macau from 1991 to 2000 (newspapers, radio, television and correspondent of magazine Visão) as well as a Communication Sciences lecturer in the local University (1996-1999). This paper stems from an update of a Master’s thesis pursued for the University of Leicester, UK (2001), never published. The topic was approached in a critical political economy perspective through communication policy research and interviews with editors, journalists and other agents in the communication process. The objective was to understand how the concept of freed...