Ricardo Costa (journalist)

Ricardo Paiva Costa (Lisbon, 1968) is a Portuguese-Indian journalist.

Costa has worked for SIC television network as a host in several television programs, including Expresso da Meia-Noite, with Nicolau Santos. Since 2011, he is the director of Expresso. He is son of Orlando da Costa, a writer, and Inácia Martins Ramalho de Paiva and brother of António Costa, the current Portuguese Prime-Minister, by his father's first marriage to Maria Antónia Palla, journalist.

He is divorced from Cláudia Borges, journalist, with whom he has three children. Before starting his career in journalism and became a noted media personality, Costa studied for a degree in communication at the New University of Lisbon, but did not graduate. António Costa is his half brother.