Jorge Lanata | |
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![]() Lanata in 2019 | |
Born | Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina | 12 September 1960
Died | 30 December 2024 Campanario Jardín de Paz cemetery, in Florencio Varela, Argentina | (aged 64)
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Years active | 1974–2024 |
Known for | Reporting on the K-Money political scandal |
Spouses | Patricia Orlando
(m. 1984; div. 1986)Sara Stewart Brown
(m. 1998; div. 2016)Elba Marcovecchio (m. 2022) |
Partner | Andrea Rodríguez (1986–1989) |
Children | 2 |
Jorge Ernesto Lanata (12 September 1960 – 30 December 2024) was an Argentine journalist and author. He founded the newspaper Página 12 in 1987,[1] and worked on several TV programs, newspapers, magazines and documentaries. He moved to the Clarín Group in 2012, and hosted Lanata sin filtro on Radio Mitre and Periodismo para todos on El Trece. He won several awards, including the Golden Martín Fierro Award. He was hospitalized in 2024 with several health problems, and after some months he died on 30 December 2024.