Career
He founded the leftist Argentine newspaper Pagina 12 in 1987 and co-founded the daily newspaper Crítica de la Argentina on March 2, 2008, and was its director until April 4, 2009. 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.
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 Veintitrés (Twenty-Three) magazine.
He produced the documentary series BRIC: The New World in 2010.
In 2012 Lanata came back to television 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 Laboratory, 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.