Antónia de Sousa

Antónia de Sousa
Born(1940-07-22)22 July 1940
Died15 May 2025(2025-05-15) (aged 84)
Cascais, Portugal
NationalityPortuguese

Antónia de Sousa (22 July 1940 – 15 May 2025) was a Portuguese journalist and feminist. She was one of the first women to be part of a newsroom team.[1]

Career

Antónia de Sousa was born in Vila Nova de Gaia, on 22 July 1940, starting work as a journalist at Jornal Feminino, in Porto. She moved to the editorial staff of the Diário de Lisboa, working in the attic, next to the newspaper's archive because she was a woman.[2] She also worked for the women's magazines Modas e Bordados and Flama, and helped found the newspaper A Luta, joining Diário de Notícias in 1979.[3][4]

A strong defender of women's rights, she developed several reporting programs dedicated to them, for RTP, where she presented the situation and the role of women in Portuguese society.[5]

Death

De Sousa died on 15 May 2025, at the age of 84.[6]

References

  1. ^ Ferro, Carlos (15 May 2025). "Morreu Antónia de Sousa, jornalista do DN "empenhada em defender os direitos das mulheres"". Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). Retrieved 12 June 2025.
  2. ^ Jornalistas, Clube de (15 May 2024). "Antónia de Sousa (1947-2025)". Clube de Jornalistas (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 12 June 2025.
  3. ^ "Última Edição | A Luta". hemerotecadigital.cm-lisboa.pt. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
  4. ^ Lusa, Agência. "Jornalista pioneira Antónia de Sousa morre aos 84 anos". DNOTICIAS.PT (in Portuguese). Retrieved 12 June 2025.
  5. ^ Afonso, Maria Almeida, Pedro Miguel Santos, Bernardo (8 March 2017). "Maria Antónia Palla sobre feminismo, jornalismo de causas e o aborto". Fumaça (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 12 June 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ Ferro, Carlos (15 May 2025). "Morreu Antónia de Sousa, jornalista do DN "empenhada em defender os direitos das mulheres"". Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). Retrieved 12 June 2025.