The Porto.pt portal is a port of entry for positive information about the city of Porto. Produced by the Office of Communication and Promotion of the Porto City Council, it has its own production of news content (texts, photography and video). The portal is still a place of dissemination and promotion of third-party information, such as institutions of the city (whether or not supported by the municipality); information about Porto, spread by the media in Portugal or abroad and the so-called "participatory journalism" created-content, broadcast on blogs, social networks or other means of informal online communication.