- Jorge Lanata
Jorge Lanata is an Argentine
journalist and writer, born inMar del Plata in 1960. He is the current director of the daily Argentine newspaperCrítica de la Argentina , which he co-founded on March 2, 2008.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" (1995 Martín Fierro Award for best journalistic show in radio). He regularly published in media abroad ("Miami Herald", "El Espectador" -Colombia -, among others).He directed [http://www.veintitres.com Veintitrés] ("Twenty-Three") magazine. He hosted "Dia D" ("D-day"), 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 Marín Fierro award for best journalistic TV host in 1996, 1997 and 2004.
Books and literature
In 1987 he published "El nuevo periodismo" ("The New Journalism") as a compiler, and the following year "La guerra de las piedras" ("War of the Stones", report). He also published "Polaroids" (short stories, 1991), "Historia de Teller" (novel, 1992), "Cortinas de Humo" ("Smokescreens", 1995, in collaboration with American journalist Joe Goldman), an investigation on the 1994 terrorist attack to the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA), and "Vuelta de página" ("Turn of the Page", 1997), a collection of press articles written throughout his whole journalistic career. One of his short stories, "Oculten la luna" ("Hide the Moon"), was included in "Prospero's Mirror" (Curbstone Press of united States). 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" ("DNA, Genetic Map of Argentine Faults", essay).
Films
In October 2004, he premièred "
Deuda " ("Debt"), a documentary on foreign debt and his "opera prima" in cinema discussing bureacratic corruption and ignorance, a film which was nominated for many awards.
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