Edite Castro Soeiro (March 31, 1934 – July 27, 2009) was a

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, notable as one of the first women to attain a senior position on Portuguese journalism. She was born in Angola, where she worked for the

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weekly ''O Intransigente'' in the 1950s before moving to Portugal and working for the publications ''Flama'', ''Notícia'', ''O Jornal'' and ''Visão'', amongst others. In 2006 Soeiro received a Merit Award from the Portuguese Journalists' Association.

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