Edite Soeiro

{{Infobox person

| name = Edite Soeiro

| birth_name = Edite Castro Soeiro

| birth_date = March 31, 1934

| birth_place = Province of Angola

| death_date = {{death date and age|2009|7|27|1934|3|31}}

| occupation = Journalist

}}

{{Short description|Portuguese journalist}}

Edite Castro Soeiro (March 31, 1934 – July 27, 2009http://abaciente.blogspot.com/2010/07/27-de-julho-de-2009-morreu-edite-soeiro_26.html {{User-generated source|date=August 2022}}) was a Portuguese journalist, notable as one of the first women to attain a senior position in Portuguese journalism.{{cite news |title=Morreu jornalista Edite Soeiro |url=https://tsf.sapo.pt/PaginaInicial/Vida/Interior.aspx?content_id=1319017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090730021106/http://tsf.sapo.pt/PaginaInicial/Vida/Interior.aspx?content_id=1319017 |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 July 2009 |work=TSF |date=27 July 2009 |accessdate=1 September 2010 }} She was born in Angola, where she worked for the Benguela weekly O Intransigente in the 1950s before moving to Portugal and working for the publications Flama, Notícia, O Jornal, and Visão, among others.{{cite news |title=Profissionais destacam as qualidades da jornalista Edite Soeiro |url=https://jn.sapo.pt/PaginaInicial/Media/Interior.aspx?content_id=1319878 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090801232639/http://jn.sapo.pt/PaginaInicial/Media/Interior.aspx?content_id=1319878 |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 August 2009 |work=Jornal de Notícias |date=29 July 2009 |accessdate=1 September 2010 }}

In 2006, Soeiro received a Merit Award from the Portuguese Journalists' Association.{{cite news|title=Prémios Gazeta de Jornalismo entregues hoje nas ruínas do Convento do Carmo |url=http://www.barlavento.online.pt/index.php/noticia?id=9084 |work=Barlavento |date=13 September 2006 |accessdate=1 September 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100808075536/http://www.barlavento.online.pt/index.php/noticia?id=9084 |archivedate=8 August 2010 }}