Cláudia Marques Santos

Cláudia Marques Santos is a freelance journalist based in Lisbon, with work published in national newspapers such as Público, Observador, Expresso, Diário de Notícias, newsmagazine Visão or literature magazine LER. She is a member of a recently formed independent media outlet of investigative journalism called Matéria collective and coordinates Innocence Project Portugal, aimed to investigate misled law cases, for which she won a grant from Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. She was also awarded a cultural journalism grant by Fundación Gabriel García Márquez twice, in 2018 and 2020. In 2022, she formed, with eight other colleagues, Portugal’s first journalists’ consortium, whose first investigation was about online hate speech perpetrated by Portuguese police forces. In 2023, together with Ana Patrícia Silva, she won a Pulitzer Center fellowship to investigate cases of sexual harassment in hospitals and doctors’ offices, articles with which they were 2024’s European Press Prize finalists in Investigation and also considered one of 2023’s Best Investigative Stories in Portuguese by Global Investigative Journalism Network. Cláudia teaches journalism and semiotics at Universidade Lusófona and cultural journalism at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in which she is taking a PhD in Media Studies. If You Walk the Galaxies is her personal slow journalism project, through which she lingeringly interviews Portuguese-speaking artists.