Sul Informação was created on 26 September 2011. The idea came from three journalists: Elisabete Rodrigues, Hugo Rodrigues and Nuno Costa, who decided to join and build a unique and exclusively online newspaper.
Sul Informação is a generalist regional newspaper recognized with many prizes such as National Prize of Inovation Journalism, in 2018, Best Online Regional Newspaper in Portugal, attributed by Altice, in 2018, or "Analyze Poverty in Media" Award in 2023.