Jorge Lanata was immersed in journalism from a very young age and his career took him to many of the country’s leading newsrooms, including some which no longer exist. A large presence on both television and radio, he founded and directed media such as the Página/12 daily, although as the years went by, he departed from the newspaper’s ideological line.
In the last decade Lanata toughened his anti-Kirchnerite profile with his Periodismo Para Todos (PPT) programme. He was the protagonist of a period when his word was central to national political debate. Meanwhile, he wrote books, directed documentaries and other multi-platform projects while attracting readers with his weekly Saturday columns in the newspaper Clarín.
Born on September 12, 1960 in Mar del Plata, Lanata pioneered the transformation of the forms of narrating reality, combining acumen, irony and a critical focus which converted him into an outstanding journalist and, at the same time, polarised the country.
Lanata did not limit himself to the print media – he shone in radio, television and literature. His radio programme Lanata sin filtro, transmitted by Radio Mitre, drew the biggest audiences with thousands following his analyses and commentaries. On television he ran some of the most memorable programmes of Argentine journalism, like Día D and, more recently, Periodismo Para Todos, a series which marked the media and political agenda of the country as from 2012.