About me
It all began behind the microphones of local radio stations, but it was in the press that Vânia Maia became a professional journalist. Her work has earned her over a dozen awards, including the Lorenzo Natali Prize from the European Commission.
A fellow of the European Collaborative Journalism Programme (ECJP), which focuses on collaborative investigative journalism and is developed by Arena for Journalism in Europe and the Toepfer Foundation, she has also received a Journalism Research Grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Additionally, she was selected to participate in specialized training on Effective Reporting on Migration, organized by the European Excellence Exchange in Journalism and COPEAM.
Maia has experience as a teacher, speaker, moderator, and award jury member. She was part of the Organizing Committee and the Executive Committee of the 5th Congress of Portuguese Journalists. Currently, she serves on the board of the Portuguese Journalists' Union.
Her reporting has taken her to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, refugee camps in Uganda, and areas devastated by cyclones in Mozambique.
Maia is a freelance journalist, a PhD candidate in Communication Sciences, and a guest lecturer at Lusófona University Lisbon. She is also working on her first non-fiction book.