Ciro Gómez Leyva (born October 10, 1957) is a Mexican news anchor and personality. He hosts the main newscast on

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and a morning radio program, ''Ciro por la Mañana'' (Ciro in the Morning), for

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. Gómez Leyva has also written for newspapers and managed radio and television stations, including the Sistema de Radio y Televisión Mexiquense and

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Life

Born in

Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley o ...

, Gómez studied communications at the

Universidad Iberoamericana The Ibero-American University ( es, Universidad Iberoamericana), also referred to by its acronym ''UIA'' but commonly known as ''Ibero'' or ''La Ibero'') is a private, Catholic, Mexican higher education institution, sponsored by the Mexican provi ...

and earned a master's degree in sociology from the

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. In the 1980s, he helped to start the Sistema de Radio y Televisión Mexiquense, with its radio and TV stations serving the

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; he also held brief stints as an editor at '' Expansión'' and as a special reporter for the ''

El Financiero ''El Financiero'' (, "The Financial") is a Mexican national daily newspaper covering business and the financial markets. It is owned by Grupo Multimedia Lauman, S.A.P.I. de C.V. and has offices in the Miguel Hidalgo borough of Mexico City. His ...

'' and ''

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'' 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

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, who would go on to anchor

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'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 ''Milenio'' is a major national newspaper in Mexico, owned by Grupo Multimedios. It is published in 11 cities across Mexico, including Monterrey, Mexico City, Guadalajara, León, Pachuca, Puebla, Villahermosa, Tampico, Torreón, Toluca, and Xal ...

'' newspaper, titled "La historia en breve" (The Story in Brief), which four years later became a daily column. CNI ceased operations in May 2005 as a result of a workers' strike. In 2006, after CNI folded, Gómez was a panelist on ''Tercer Grado'', a

news and political talk show, and in 2008, he joined

, helping to launch the network and anchoring its 10pm news hour. He remained with Milenio TV exactly five years and then proceeded to leave ''Tercer Grado'' in 2014. In January 2015, after 16 years, Gómez Leyva moved his columns from ''Milenio'' to '' El Universal'', where he continued to write until July 2016. In 2016, Gómez Leyva was one of the first hires of the new

national network, chosen to anchor the network's flagship late newscast. In Mexico City on December 16, 2022, Gómez Leyva survived an armed attack by two suspects aboard a motorcycle.

References

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