Jorge Lanata is an Argentinejournalist and writer. He founded the Argentine newspapersPágina/12 and Crítica de la Argentina. He was born in Mar del Plata. His grandfather was Agustín Lanata, a well known footballer of the second decade of the 20th century. He started his career at 14 writing short news for Radio Nacional. Since 1977 he was a collaborator of several written media: Siete Días magazine, Clarín Revista. In 1983 he entered the news program of Radio Belgrano and made investigation reports for Sin Anestesia show, while collaborating with Humor, El Periodista and El Porteño magazines. He was a founder of the Cooperativa de Periodistas that purchased the monthly magazine El Porteño, and was its editor in chief. In 1987 he founded Página 12 newspaper, and was its director until 1994. From 1990 until 1993 he hosted Hora 25 radio show, and between 1994 and 1996 Rompe/Cabezas. He regularly published in media abroad. He directed magazine. He hosted Día D, a very popular TV show that achieved Martín Fierro award for best journalistic television show in 1996 and 1997, and Clarín Award for best TV show in 2003. Lanata himself achieved a Marín Fierro Award for Best Journalistic TV Host in 1996, 1997 and 2004. He produced the documentary series BRIC: The New World in 2010.
Radio
In 2012 he started hosting on and, to this day, is one of the most popular radio shows in Argentina.
In 2012 Lanata came back to TV with a new show called "Periodismo para todos". The 2013 edition worked with the case of the K money trail. In December 2015 the Citizen's Lab, at the Munk School for Global Affairs, at University of Toronto, identified Lanata and several other South American opposition figures as having their cellphones targeted for extrajudicial surveillance by government associated hackers.
Books and literature
In 1987 he published El nuevo periodismo as a compiler, and the following year La guerra de las piedras. He also published Polaroids, Historia de Teller, Cortinas de Humo, an investigation on the 1994 terrorist attack to the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association, and Vuelta de página, a collection of press articles written throughout his whole journalistic career. One of his short stories, "Oculten la luna", was included in Prospero's Mirror. His books Argentinos 1 and Argentinos 2 sold more than 340.000 copies, and were edited in Spain in a single volume. In 2004 he published ADN, mapa genético de los defectos argentinos.
Films
In October 2004, he premiered Deuda, a documentary on foreign debt and his opera prima in cinema discussing bureaucratic corruption and ignorance.
