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.
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. 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.
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.
Death De Sousa died on 15 May 2025, at the age of 84.
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