Daniela Santiago is a journalist who has worked for RTP TV channel since 1996. In 2015, she became a correspondent for public television and Antena 1 in Spain. She holds a Master’s degree in Communication, Culture and Information Technologies from ISCTE, where she was a doctoral student in Sociology, and obtained a Specialist Degree in Journalism from the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon. She taught on the Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Journalism at the Escola Superior de Comunicação Social.

Among various distinctions, she was awarded the 1st “Human Rights and Integration” Journalism Prize by the High Commission for Immigration and Intercultural Dialogue (ACIDI) and the UNESCO National Commission in 2008. She is the author of three books: “O Reconforto da Televisão – uma visão diferente sobre a tragédia de Entre-os-Rios”; “Inferno no Paraíso – 15 dias no Sri Lanka depois do Tsunami” and “O Caramelo da Leonor” (Leonor’s Caramel) (a children’s book in ink that was also printed in Braille).