Marcela Turati

Marcela Turati (Mexico City, 1974) is an award-winning journalist specializing in human rights reporting. She is the co-founder of Quinto Elemento Lab (2016), a journalism innovation and investigative reporting lab, and Periodistas de a Pie (2006), one of Mexico’s leading networks for independent journalists.

She has led collaborative reporting initiatives including #Másde72, a landmark project documenting the massacres of migrants in Tamaulipas. Since 2018, she has directed A dónde van los desaparecidos, a platform dedicated to covering Mexico’s disappearance crisis and training journalists to report on the issue.

Turati has coordinated and participated in acclaimed collaborative investigations such as El país de las 2 mil fosas andCrisis forense. Her work has been recognized internationally with distinctions including the Gabo Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, the Louis M. Lyons Award from Harvard University's Nieman Foundation, and the Maria Moors Cabot Prize from Columbia University. In Mexico, she received numerous honors, including the Javier Valdez Cárdenas Journalism Prize (2021), awarded by publisher Penguin Random House-Aguilar.

In 2015, her investigation into the mass graves of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, led Mexican authorities to subject her to illegal surveillance intended to identify her sources. That same year, she was among the journalists targeted with the Pegasus spyware deployed by the Mexican government.