Ciro Gómez Leyva

Ciro Gómez Leyva (born October 10, 1957) In the 1980s, he helped to start the Sistema de Radio y Televisión Mexiquense, with its radio and TV stations serving the State of Mexico; he also held brief stints as an editor at Expansión and as a special reporter for the El Financiero and Reforma newspapers.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Gómez worked for CNI Canal 40, a news-oriented television station in Mexico City. He hosted the station's flagship newscast alongside Denise Maerker, who would go on to anchor Televisa's flagship newscast in 2016 and become direct competition for Gómez Leyva. During this time, in 1999, Gómez Leyva began writing a weekly column for the Milenio newspaper, titled "La historia en breve" (The Story in Brief), which four years later became a daily column.

In January 2015, after 16 years, Gómez Leyva moved his columns from Milenio to El Universal, where he continued to write until July 2016. After his assassination attempt, Gómez Leyva departed from Mexico for a new life in Madrid, Spain.