He was born in Lisbon in 1957. He studied at Pedro Nunes Secondary School, became involved in the student association movement even before 25 April 1974 and began working as a journalist in 1976. He did a Biology course at the University of Lisbon School of Sciences between 1978 and 1984. After spending some time at the weekly A Voz do Povo newspaper, he worked at the weekly Expresso newspaper in the 1980s. He left there in 1989 to found the Público newspaper, where he worked in management for 20 years, 11 of which as director, until October 2009. He continued to work as a freelance columnist and journalist until 2014, when he founded the Observador newspaper, where he is publisher. He has written several books on cultural and environmental heritage and on political topics, he was also a professor in different higher education institutions and currently teaches seminars at the Catholic University Institute of Political Studies. He is married, has two children and lives near the westernmost point in mainland Europe.

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