Javier Garza Ramos is a journalist based in Torreón (northern Mexico). He is co-host of El Noti, one of the most listened news podcasts in the country and runs Horizonte Lagunero, a local news platform on radio and social networks.

With a career of more than 25 years, he was editorial director of El Siglo de Torreón during the toughest years of narco-violence in the states of Coahuila and Durango. He has been a reporter and editor at Reforma newspaper in Mexico City. He was a Knight Fellow at the International Center for Journalists and has collaborated with the World Association of News Editors and the Inter American Press Association in training journalists in various parts of the world. He is a regular contributor to the newspaper El País and the news portal Latinus.

He is the author of the book “Nueve Disparos”, an in-depth report on a shooting at the Cervantes School in Torreón in January 2020, and co-author of “Reconquistando La Laguna”, a study on the recovery of security in the Comarca Lagunera. He serves on the boards of several international organizations such as the World Editors Forum, Artículo19, the Fund for Journalism and Trauma.

In 2022 he received the Maria Moors Cabot Award for journalism in the Americas granted by Columbia University.

He is a graduate of the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and the University of Texas at Austin.