Rosária Rato, a journalist with the Lusa news agency and former leader of the Journalists’ Union (SJ), died on Friday night at the Capuchos Hospital in Lisbon, a family source told Lusa today.
With a degree in Social Communication from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, she began her career at the now defunct ANOP (Agência Noticiosa Portuguesa, which gave rise to the Lusa agency), later moving to Lusa, where she worked mainly in the Economy section and specialized in monitoring trade union issues.
She was a union delegate, a member of several editorial boards, vice-president of the Journalists’ Professional Card Commission and vice-president of the Journalists’ Union.
Rosária Rato was 61 years old.
