Augusto Nunes

Augusto Nunes da Silva (born September 25, 1949; Taquaritinga, state of São Paulo) is a Brazilian journalist, writer and commentator. He is one of Brazil's main conservative journalists.^[1]

Augusto Nunes in 2014.

Career

He was a columnist for Veja magazine, editor-in-chief of R7 and host of the journal of Record News.^[2]

Augusto Nunes (right) interviewing Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro (left).

He was the main interviewer of the Roda Viva program between 2010 and 2014.^[3]

Currently he works at Jovem Pan, being a commentator on the program Os Pingos nos Is and host of Direto ao Ponto, as well as writing for Revista Oeste.^[4][5][6]

Fight with Glenn Greenwald

In 2019, Augusto attacked American journalist Glenn Greenwald live on air.^{[7][8][9][10]}

Awards

He won the ExxonMobil Journalism Award four times.^[11]

Nunes was included in a selection of the six most important journalists in Brazil, according to Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV).^[12]