María Seoane


María Seoane was an Argentine economist, journalist, and writer who ventured into film. She won numerous awards and published eight books on political issues in Argentine history. She was the director of LRA Radio Nacional from 2009 until her resignation on 21 December 2015. Seoane died on 27 December 2023, at the age of 75.

Career

Seoane had a degree in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires.
She served as:
  • National political editor of the journal El Periodista de Buenos Aires
  • National political editor of the newspaper Sur
  • Editor-in-chief of the Argentine section of the magazine Noticias
  • Deputy secretary of national political editing
  • Director of the Clarín newspaper supplement Zona
She published contributions in:

Academics

Seoane was a professor in the Journalism Master's program of the Chair of Journalistic Research at the University of San Andrés, and Columbia University.
Seoane was an OAS consultant, and prepared reports on freedom of expression for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

Militancy

In 1990s Seoane joined the select group of the Journalists' Association.
In 2002, she signed a request from the Journalists' Association criticizing the detention of Ernestina Herrera de Noble by, due to the alleged appropriation of two children of disappeared persons.
During the government of Néstor Kirchner she was director of the magazine Caras y Caretas. In 2009, under Cristina Fernández, she became Executive Director of LRA Radio Nacional. She resigned the position on 21 December 2015.
Seoane was a member of the group COMUNA, in favour of democratic communication.

Books

La noche de los lápices, chronicle co-authored with, Editorial Contrapunto, 1986Menem, la patria sociedad anónima, essay, Editorial Gente Sur, 1990Todo o nada. Biografía de Mario Roberto Santucho, Editorial Planeta, 1991El burgués maldito. Biografía de José Ber Gelbard, Editorial Planeta, 1998El dictador. Biografía de Jorge Rafael Videla, co-author, Editorial Sudamericana, 2001El saqueo de la Argentina, about privatizations; written in collaboration with and others, 2001Nosotros : apuntes sobre pasiones, razones y trampas de los argentinos entre dos siglos. Sudamericana, 2005Argentina. El siglo del progreso y la oscuridad, Planeta, 2006El enigma Perrotta, Sudamericana, 2011Bravas. Alicia Eguren de Cooke y Susana Pirí Lugones. Sudamericana, 2014, El nieto. La trágica y luminosa historia de Ignacio "Guido" Montoya Carlotto, with, Sudamericana, May 2015

''Notebooks of Caras y Caretas''

La noche de los bastones largos La noche de la dictadura Evita, esa mujer Rodolfo Walsh, la palabra no se rinde La tragedia y la comedia en la Argentina
  • ''El Cordobazo''

Film

Seoane's first book, The Night of Pencils, was adapted into a film of the same name by Argentine director Héctor Olivera.
Seoane ventured into directing with the documentary Gelbard, historia secreta del último burgués nacional, about the former Economy Minister José Ber Gelbard.
Seoane also directed the 2011 animated film Eva from Argentina, focusing on the historical figures Eva Perón and Rodolfo Walsh.

Awards