Jorge Lanata

Jorge Ernesto Lanata (Mar del Plata, September 12, 1960) is an Argentine journalist and writer. He has ventured into various genres such as investigative journalism, literature, documentaries, television, film and magazine theater. He has participated in the founding of newspapers, magazines and news portals.

He hosts Lanata sin Filtro on Radio Miter and the television series Journalism for All on Channel 13. He writes a column in the newspaper Clarín.

Biography

He comes from a lower-middle class family from the town of Sarandí, in the district of Avellaneda (province of Buenos Aires). When he was seven years old, his mother became bedridden as a result of brain surgery for cancer. He was raised by his aunts and his grandmother.

His first interview was with the poet Conrado Nalé Roxlo, whom he looked up in the telephone directory. He did it after in primary school they were asked to interview someone close to him, but he went further.

He began writing in Colmena, the middle of his secondary school - Colegio San Martín (in Avellaneda) -, and the newspaper La Ciudad of Avellaneda reproduced some of those notes.

In 1974, at the age of 14, he began working as an editor for news cables on Radio Nacional. That year he won the Second Municipal Essay Prize with "The social theme in Argentine cinema." In 1978 he graduated from Colegio San Martín.

During the last civil-military dictatorship (1976-1983), he worked as a waiter in a bar that still exists. In 1977, he wrote articles for the magazine Siete Días.

In 2006 he received the "Freedom Award", awarded by the Atlas Foundation for a Free Society, which promotes the free market and of which he is one of its exclusive members. He participates in talks and debates organized by another liberal NGO: the Libertad Foundation.

In 2013 he was offered to run as a politician but he refused, claiming that he is a journalist and that he only dedicates himself to reporting.

Together with his ex-partner, Andrea Rodríguez, he had his first daughter, Bárbara. He was married to Patricia Orlando from 1984 to 1986, then to Silvina Chediek from 1990 to 1991, and finally to Sara Stewart Brown between 1998 and 2016 (with whom he had his second daughter, Lola).

Career

Graph

In graphics he founded and directed the newspapers Página/12, Crítica de la Argentina and the magazines Veintitrés, Página/30 and Ego.

He was part of the foundation of the Cooperative of Independent Journalists, editor of the magazine El Porteño, founded and created by Gabriel Levinas and Miguel Briante (between 1982 and 1993), in which he served as Editor-in-Chief.

Towards May 1987, at the age of 26, he was the founder of the center-left political newspaper Página/12 and was its journalistic director during its first seven years. In August 1990, he brought out the monthly magazine Página / 30 , which he directed until April 1995.

In 1998, he founded the magazine Veintiuno, where he brought together former Página/12 editors such as Ernesto Tenembaum, Marcelo Zlotogwiazda, Martín Caparrós, Andrea Rodríguez and Adrián Paenza, among others. On its first anniversary, the magazine was renamed Veintidós , and on the second, Veintitrés , a name that it maintains. Lanata left his management at the end of 2001 and sold most of the shares to the group that owns TV Guía. In 2001 he founded the magazine EGO .

He has collaborated in publications such as Siete Días, Diario Popular, El Periodista de Buenos Aires, Perfil, and abroad such as El Nuevo Herald (from Miami), The Washington Times, El Espectador (from Bogotá) and El Diario de Caracas (from Venezuela).

Criticism of Argentina

After leaving his column in the newspaper Perfil, in August 2007, he launched himself into the creation of Crítica de la Argentina. This newspaper began to be published on March 2, 2008 and, despite the success of its beginnings (it had an initial circulation of 80,000 sold-out copies), sales slowed and Lanata left his position as director, maintaining his collaboration as a columnist.. The journalist stated that he presented his resignation due to "differences" with businessman Antonio Mata, majority shareholder, who would later be accused and investigated for fraudulent administration in the case of the emptying of Aerolíneas Argentinas. Other versions maintained that his departure It was due to the drop in sales of the newspaper.

Months later, after a hard period of crisis due to sales that continued to fall and in the midst of a conflict between the shareholders Antonio Mata and Marcelo Figueiras - who refused to assume responsibility for the debts - and the newspaper's employees who occupied the plant and demanded payment of their salaries, Papel 2.0 S.A., the company that controlled Crítica de la Argentina, declared bankruptcy. Lanata assumed bankruptcy and was inhibited According to Alejandra Mendoza, a witness at that moment, Lanata offered to leave all the magazine's employees in a cooperative but the proposal was not accepted by the workers.

Radio

He worked on Radio Belgrano's news program and, at the same station, during the democratic transition that began in December 1983, he was in charge of investigating the program Without anesthesia hosted by Eduardo Aliverti.

On Rock & Pop, had programs such as Hora 25 and RompeCabezas, which received the Martín Fierro Award for best radio journalism in 1995.

After a short period with low audience at midday on Radio Colonia in Uruguay, he returned in 2005 with "Lanata AM" on Radio del Plata. Until December 2007, she hosted "Lanata PM", from 5pm to 8pm on the same AM 1030, along with Maximiliano Montenegro, Reynaldo Sietecase, Norberto El Ruso Verea, Verónica Castañares and Romina Manguel, among other columnists.

In 2012 he collaborated in the Latin American talk show La Ventana, Gemma Nierga's program on Cadena SER radio in Spain, along with Álvaro Vargas Llosa and Boris Izaguirre on Tuesdays from 4 to 5 p.m. from Madrid; leaves from Argentina from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.).

The same year, he began to host from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., on Radio Mitre, "Lanata sinfilter", broadcast in video streaming format via the internet.

Television

He was the creator of the program Día D, awarded the Martín Fierro Award in three categories and one of the most outstanding programs he has hosted. His continuity was Behind the news . He also hosted Journey to the End of the Night, Why?, and The Moon.

In 2008, he participated in the last episode of the soap opera Vidas Robadas.

From April 2009 to 2011 he hosted a journalistic program on Channel 26, After all, known by its acronym (DDT).

In 2010 he produced and directed the documentary BRIC, based on the economic theory that projects the new powers of the world for 2050 on the homonymous group of ascending economies on the Infinito channel also broadcast by Cable News Network (CNN) and nominated for the Martín Fierro de Cable Awards.

In 2011 he produced and hosted the documentary 26 people to save the world which was also broadcast by CNN, with which he toured the five continents to interview philosophers, writers, scientists and thinkers who discuss how save the world.

Also in 2011 he had a short-lived experience in Uruguay, on Teledoce. The program Lanata.uy was lifted, according to the channel, “for purely economic reasons,” in a fact that caused concern among Uruguayan journalists.

On April 15, 2012, his program Journalism for all (PPT) began. The second season of the television cycle began on April 14, 2013, all Sundays at 10 p.m. on channel 13.

This program was the most watched of 2013 and set the political agenda of the rest of the radio, television and written media that dedicated themselves during the week to delving deeper into the issues started by him and even the government responded with facts. That led Lanata to become a "mega-star" of the show. The program runs until 2018.

On Friday, September 18, 2015, the Tucumán judge who decided to annul the elections in that province, would have used the "Lanata videos" along with a note from La Nación, referring to the previous Sunday's report in PPT .

At the end of November 2015, after the presidential elections, Lanata said he would end his investigative journalistic cycle Journalism for all. She cited her ambition to pursue new projects, including the opening of her own news portal "DUCTO", her return as a columnist to Clarín and new cycles on television.

In April 2016, his series The Most Intelligent Argentine began on Channel 13, but it was soon lifted due to low viewership.

In 2019, he had a talk show called Hora 25.

Film director

In October 2004 he released Deuda, a documentary about Argentina's external debt. This film had two nominations for the Silver Condor in 2005: for Best Documentary Feature Film and for Best Documentary Feature Screenplay.

In March 2007 there was the premiere of So far, so close: Malvinas, 25 years later, another investigative documentary that he made about the traces of the Malvinas War and the corporations foreign economic entities benefiting from the conflict.

He directed the music video for the song "La argentinidad al palo", by the band Bersuit Vergarabat.

Actor

In 2011 he ventured as an actor in the Argentine comedy-drama film Medianeras, in a secondary role of a traumatologist who gives health advice to the protagonist.

Theatre

In 2008, he received a proposal from theater producer Lino Patalano to act in magazine theater. On October 24, she debuted in the play La rotativa del Maipo, where she headed the marquee of the centenary Argentine theater along with figures such as the pop group Miranda! and the star Ximena Capristo. She performed a monologue and presented the cover of the newspaper Crítica the next day, in what marked her debut on stage.

Magazine covers

Lanata made it to the cover of magazines many times. He was featured in Noticias magazine in 2012 twice, when his biography written by Luis Majul was published. He was the cover of the local edition of Rolling Stone twice, in 1999 and in 2013, baptized as the "Wild Bull" of journalism. Argentinian, a nickname that transcended borders. Again, in 2013, Noticias magazine named him as if he were a bullfighter. That year he was on the cover of Paparazzi twice.

Works

• 1987: The new journalism (recollection of texts by various authors).
• 1988: The War of the Stones (chronic to the Arab-Israeli confrontation in the Gaza Strip). Buenos Aires: Page/12, 1988.
• 1991: Polaroids (chuckles). ISBN 950-742-089-4.
• 1992: History of Teller (novela). ISBN 950-742-250-1.
• 1994: Smoke curtains (in co-authoring with Joe Goldman. Journalistic research on attacks on Jewish institutions in Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires: Planeta, 1994. ISBN 950-742-582-9.
• 1997: Back of page (recollection of notes and editorials). ISBN 987-96705-0-7.
• 2003: Argentinos (two tomos of more than 500 pages covering Argentine history from birth to present; there is a version pocket [ISBN 84-666-2456-2] and another pedagogical as "recommended reading for middle education". ISBN 950-15-2277-6. ISBN 950-15-2258-X / ISBN 950-15-2259-8.
• 2004: DNA. Genetic map of Argentine defects (book of opinion). ISBN 950-49-1286-9.
• 2006: Universal Encyclopedia of Verse.
• 2007: Deaths of love (relative to a revolutionary dream and its violent failure in which it details the shootings of two members of the guerrilla group that followed Che Guevara. Buenos Aires: Alfaguara, 2007. ISBN 978-987-04-0653-2.
• 2008: Time 25 (private and public texts of various years, including poems and photos).
• 2008: Argentinos (final edition in single volume; the chapters on Che Guevara and the Falkland War were removed and made documentaries on those topics). ISBN 978-950-07-3002-0.
• 2012: 26 people to save the world (recollection of interviews conducted by Jorge Lanata to 26 influential people from around the world, recorded for documentary broadcast on the Infinite Channel). Buenos Aires: South American, 2012. ISBN 9789500739955.
• 2014: 10K, the stolen decade. Data and facts in the years of the crack (arts of opinion). ISBN 9789504939030 (e-book ISBN 9789504939085). Buenos Aires: Grupo Planeta, 2014.

Awards and nominations

Prizes

Martin Fierro Award

Martín Fierro de Cable Awards

Tato Awards

Clarin Awards

Ether Awards

Silver Condor Awards

Konex Award

ACE Awards

Fund TV Awards

Emmy Awards

Merits

• Jury at Harvard University and the National Journalism Award of Ecuador.
• He has been invited to lecture on his specialty at the national and private universities of Argentina and abroad: Salamanca, Complutense (from Madrid), São Paulo, Columbia, Santiago de Chile, Bogotá, Montevideo, Inter-American Press Association, etc.).

Recognitions

• 1991: Gold Pencil to the best advertising for television.
• 1994: Fundación Huésped for his work.
• 1994: Broadcasting to radio excellence.
• 1996: Broadcasting to excellence on television.
• 1997: Broadcasting to excellence on television.
• 1997: TEA predicted it as one of the ten journalists of the decade.
• 1999: Rodolfo Walsh Award for his journalistic work delivered by the Faculty of Journalism and Social Communication of the National University of La Plata.
• 2001: Broadcasting to excellence on television.
• 2003: illustrious citizen of the city of Mar del Plata.
• 2002: Broadcasting to excellence in television driving.
• 2003: It is integrated into the honorary jury of the Clarín Awards.
• 2004: Ilustre citizen of the province of Córdoba.
• 2006: Freedom Prize awarded by the Atlas Foundation for a Free Society, which promotes the free market.
• 2013: Iris International Prize for her career and political complaints in her program Journalism for all.
• 2014: Silver Medal awarded at the New York Festivals for their research in "The K Money Route".