Ana Patrícia Silva

Ana Patrícia Silva was selected for the 2024 Shortlist with “How Am I Going To Ask a Hospital for Help if the Abuse Happens in the Hospital?”: Sexual Violence in Hospitals and Doctor’s Offices.

Ana Patrícia Silva is a journalist based in Porto, Portugal. Her work in investigative journalism has been published in the Setenta e Quatro news media, Gerador magazine and Observador newspaper. She also works with Portugal’s Innocence Project, a journalistic initiative that aims to restore freedom to innocent people.
With her work focusing mainly on human rights, social causes, justice and feminism, she was awarded the Gender and Equality Grant, from Pulitzer Center, in 2023.
In 2022 she also co-authored the investigation “Obstetric Violence: The traumatic reality of many births”, published in the Setenta e Quatro news media.
She has a degree in Communication and Cultural Sciences and is currently studying for a master’s degree in Women’s Studies.

Cláudia Marques Santos

Cláudia Marques Santos was selected for the 2024 Shortlist with “How Am I Going To Ask a Hospital for Help if the Abuse Happens in the Hospital?”: Sexual Violence in Hospitals and Doctor’s Offices.

Cláudia Marques Santos is a freelance journalist based in Lisbon, whose work has been published in Observador, Público, Visão, Expresso, Diário de Notícias, LER and Setenta e Quatro. She is Portugal’s Innocence Project president, which journalistically investigates cases that may have resulted in wrongful convictions in court. In 2022, together with eight colleagues, she formed the first Portuguese collaborative journalism consortium. She has received grants from Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, The New Journalism/ Gabriel García Márquez Foundation and the Pulitzer Center. She also teaches cultural journalism at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and journalistic writing, hermeneutics and semiotics in Universidade Lusófona.