Cláudia Marques Santos

Cláudia Marques Santos is a freelance journalist based in Lisboa, with work published in Observador, Público, Visão, Diário de Notícias, Expresso, Vogue, Máxima and LER. She is president of Projecto Inocência in Portugal, which conducts journalistic investigations into cases of people who may have been wrongfully convicted in court, and was part of the first Portuguese consortium of journalists, which investigated online hate speech by the Portuguese police forces. A fellowship recipient from the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, the Fundação Gabriel García Márquez and the Pulitzer Center, she was shortlisted for the European Press Prize 2024 in the investigative reporting category. She is a member of the Matéria collective and runs the interview project If You Walk the Galaxies. She also teaches cultural journalism at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and journalistic writing, hermeneutics and semiotics at the Universidade Lusófona.