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]