'Shocking and frightening': Web Summit attendees react to Donald Trumps election win

It sounds like a bad political novel, but it’s real, writes Michael Moynihan in Lisbon

It was hardly surprising that Ross Barkan looked stunned by the US presidential election results at the Web Summit this week.

Staying up all night to track the results was only one part of it. Mr Barkan resigned as national political reporter for the New York Observer earlier this year because of the newspaper’s close ties to Donald Trump, whose son-in-law owns it .