Augusta Lunardi is a Brazilian freelance multimedia journalist based in Brasília.
In Brazil, she collaborates with French broadcasters such as TF1, Arte, France 2, France 24, M6 and TV5 Monde, producing hard news and mid- to long-form reports. In 2019, she interviewed Lula, who was a former president at the time, in prison for the French platform Brut. She was on the front lines of Covid-19 coverage and, in 2021, joined the team of the TV Globo program Profissão Repórter.
In 2022, she worked on the documentary’s production ‘Le Choc de Titans”, for the Franco-German channel Arte, closely following the presidential campaigns of Lula and Jair Bolsonaro. In 2023, she won the Roche Health Journalism Award for a report on organ transplants during the pandemic, produced for Profissão Repórter.
She currently works as a freelance video reporter for the Reuters news agency and for French television channels, and also collaborates as an investigative reporter with Brazilian outlets such as Agência Pública, Revista Piauí and Alma Preta. In October 2025, she covered the Penha massacre in Rio de Janeiro.
Augusta holds a degree in Journalism from Université Paris 8 and a master’s degree in Audiovisual Journalism from the Centre de Formation des Journalistes (CFJ) in Paris, where she worked for two years as a video reporter for France 24.
