''Periodismo para todos'' ( es, Journalism for everybody) is an Argentine

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television program. It is hosted by the journalist

Jorge Lanata Jorge Lanata (born 12 September 1960) is an Argentine journalist and author. He founded the newspaper ''Página 12''. He hosts ''Lanata sin filtro'' on Radio Mitre and ''Periodismo para todos'' on El Trece. He writes a column in ''Clarín (Argent ...

, and airs on Sunday nights in '' eltrece''. It was highly critical during the Cristina Fernández de Kirchner presidency. In 2013, it won several

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including best news TV program and best journalistic work for Jorge Lanata. During Fernández de Kirchner's presidency, it was censored in several provinces of Argentina with governors aligned with the president: Tucumán,

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Mendoza and Río Negro.

Description

The TV program opens with a "humorous"

stand-up comedy Stand-up comedy is a comedy, comedic performance to a live audience in which the performer addresses the audience directly from the stage. The performer is known as a comedian, a comic or a stand-up. Stand-up comedy consists of One-line joke ...

, where Lanata comments on the political events of the week with jokes. These stand-ups are included as an homage to the late

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, who made similar

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s in his TV programs, which were also aired on Sunday nights. The stand-ups feature a parody of the president

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, made by the humorist Fátima Florez. The high success of the parody made by Florez was pointed by the magazine '' Noticias'', which placed her on the main page. The theme song is " Fuck You", by

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. It was chosen to redress it after it was used in a telenovela of the state-owned

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, in a poor Spanish translation. The opening features photos of the audience making the middle finger, which soon became the icon of the program. The program was redesigned in 2020, as a result of the

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. The program did away with the live audience and the big setting, and featured just Lanata alone in a desk. The program was now called "PPT Box", and the intro and outro secuences make the visual effect of Lanata being inside a giant box.

Investigations

Most investigations made by "Periodismo para todos" generated political controversy. The first airing, on April 15, 2012, made an extensive investigation of the

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, the scandal about the vice president

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. Lanata made an interview with Carlos Raúl Schneider, who is registered as the head of "Tierras International Investments CV" a firm associated to "The Old Fund", led by Alejandro Vandenbroele, which invested million in Ciccone Calcográfica. Schneider is actually a poor

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, who was not even aware of the business involving him, who signed papers without reading them and became a victim of

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. Lanata made a report of the social and political conditions of the

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, ruled by

José Alperovich José Jorge Alperovich (born 13 April 1955) is an Argentine politician and who has served as governor of Tucumán Province from 2003 to 2015. He was elected in 2003, and reelected in 2007 and 2011. He is married to Beatriz Rojkés de Alperovich, ...

. He detailed the poor social conditions of the people and the wealth of the Alperovich family, which controls the three powers and all political institutions in Tucumán. As the program is censored in Tucumán, Lanata sought to present it live with public of the province. Alperovich did not allow that either, so the program was presented live from a house of social welfare. ''for the alleged Kirchner corruption money'' ''laundering trail investigation see'':

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Censorship

''Periodismo para todos'' was censored in several provinces with governors aligned with the president. It is censored in Tucumán, and not available in

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(''El Trece'' is a public channel).Lanata denunció censura y espionaje en Tucumán
The program that criticized governor Alperovich was followed by demonstrations against the censorship, during a speech of the ministry of education. The program is not available either for public broadcasting in the

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.Lanata denunció corrupción en Formosa y censura contra su programa
Lanata denounced political corruption, abuses against the

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and

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in the government of

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; the website of ''El Trece'' was hacked during the airing of the program. ''El Trece'' has a repeater channel in Río Negro, which shows all the programs of the network, with the sole exception of ''Periodismo para todos''. The governor

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proposed Lanata to hold a public debate about the censorship, but Lanata refused. "Censorship is not debated, it is denounced. Show the program first, and then I will debate whatever you want", he said the following week.Censura en Río Negro: Lanata y una réplica desafiante en PPT
The program has also been censored in Mendoza.Lanata asegura que anoche hackearon la página del Trece durante su programa
It has been also reported that TV signal uses to drop down just by the time "Periodismo Para Todos" is on air. Interruptions, interference and other technical issues during the program are often experienced in some cities in the Province of Córdoba on Sundays nights when "periodismo Para Todos" is broadcasting live.

Audience

Awards

* 2012

** Best journalism programTodos los ganadores
** Best male journalist (Jorge Lanata) ** Best humoristic work (Fátima Florez) * 2013

Tato Awards The Tato Awards ( es, Premios Tato) are Argentine awards for television, released by the CAPIT (Cámara Argentina de Productoras Independientes de Televisión). The award is named "Tato" as an homage to the late Tato Bores. First released in 2009, ...

** Program of the year ** Best journalist hosting (Jorge Lanata) ** Best direction in non-fiction (Luis Barros) ** Best production in non-fiction ** Best journalist program * 2013 Fund TV Awards ** Current politics Journalism Program (Programa Periodístico de Actualidad política) ** Extraordinary Award (selected among the winners by the jury ) * 2013 Martín Fierro Awards ** Best journalism program * 2014 Fund TV Awards ** Opinion Journalism Program (Programa Periodístico de Opinión) * 2014

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- World's Best TV and Films Awards ** Silver World Medal, competition "Television - News: Reports/Features" category "Investigative Report" * 2015 Martín Fierro Awards ** Golden Martín Fierro Award for Jorge Lanata ** Best journalist program ** Best male journalist (

)

Nominations

* 2013

** Best production ** Best female journalist ( Luciana Geuna) ** Best male journalist (

) * 2014 42ND INTERNATIONAL EMMY AWARDS ** CURRENT AFFAIRS (Journalism for All - The Route of the K-Money)

References

External links

* {{El Trece Investigative journalism El Trece original programming 2012 Argentine television series debuts