Ricardo is Executive Editor of Clarín and Executive Managing Editor of Clarín's news website. He began his career working for El Pueblo newspaper and joined the political section of Clarín in 1976, later becoming Deputy Editor. He was also a political columnist for Clarín's Sunday edition. In 1984 he won the Ortega y Gasset prize awarded annually by the Spanish newspaper “El Pais” in recognition of his research work on the Falkland War/La Guerra de las Malvinas.

In June 2012 Ricardo was elected president of the Global Editors Network by the association's Board members.