Vera Lagoa

Maria Armanda Pires Falcão (December 25, 1917 – August 19, 1996), better known by her pen name Vera Lagoa, was a Portuguese journalist and newspaper director. She was the first female television presenter in Portugal. She was also the first journalist to be prosecuted by a president of the Republic of Portugal.A critic of both the right and left, she faced censorship early in her career and a bombing attack of her newspaper offices in the 1970s. Beginning in 1976, she served as director-for-life of her own newspaper, O Diabo.