Javier Algarra

In November 2016 he stopped presenting the political gathering of Intereconomía Televisión El gato al agua. Later, he directed and presented the Magazine Mundo Noticias on International Radio. Since 2018, he has been the director and presenter of the program Los Intocables, in Distrito Televisión.

In 2008 he was appointed as the Director of the Weekend News of Intereconomía Televisión. In 2010 he launched the Dando Caña program, which he presented for three years, until he was appointed as the director of El gato al agua in January 2013. He has written in Diario de Barcelona, Informaciones, Interviú, El Universo de Madrid, La Vanguardia, La Razón, Época, La Gaceta, and Sierra de Madrid.

In 2002 he was appointed as the News Director of Antenna 3. During his time as the director, the news programs of Antena 3 surpassed in audience for the first time in their history.

In 1999 he was appointed as the General Director of News at Onda Cero, where he directed and presented the program La Brújula. He launched "ondacero.es", the first radio on demand in Europe.

In 1998 he joined Antena 3 as the executive director of Informativos, where he organized the development of correspondents and territorial centers in Catalonia, Valencia, Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Aragón, Galicia, Andalusia, the Balearic Islands, and Castilla y León. In that channel he directed the News 1 space, an informative program presented by Matías Prats and Susanna Griso.

In 1992 he moved to London, where he was a correspondent in the United Kingdom and Ireland for RNE and collaborated with Interviú. He returned to Spain in 1992 as the executive director of the TVE News. In addition to directing the 3:00 p.m. Newscast, in the same position, he organized major operations such as the Ibero-American Summit on Isla Margarita (Venezuela), the NATO summit in Madrid, the Pope's trip to Cuba, and the Infanta's wedding.

Javier Algarra began his professional career at Diario de Barcelona in 1980 where he joined the RTVE in 1981. He was the news-director of RNE in Catalonia and the editor of TVE in San Cugat. In 1988, he moved to Madrid and worked as the coordinator and weekend news-director of RNE, the deputy director of the El Diario de las dos, and deputy director of the program Who knows where on TVE.

Javier Algarra Bonet (Barcelona, September 20, 1961) is a Spanish journalist with the degree in Information Sciences of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He has worked in Diario de Barcelona, Radio Nacional de España, Televisión Española, Onda Cero Radio, Antena 3 (Spanish TV channel), La Gaceta, Intereconomía Televisión, Radio Internacional, and Distrito Televisión.