Ana Paula Vieira is currently a freelance journalist, after having been part of SIC's staff for a decade and a half. She holds professional license 3914. A lecturer at the Catholic University since 2015, she teaches a third-year course in the Bachelor's Degree in Communication Sciences. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Communication Sciences at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Minho. She has held a master's degree in Communication Sciences since 2011 from the same institution, specializing in Information and Journalism. As part of her pre-Bologna degree, she also spent a semester abroad at the Université Catholique de Louvain through the Erasmus program.