Mario Magarò is an investigative and multimedia journalist currently based in Barcelona. He previously spent five years in the Andean region, mainly in Bolivia and Peru, working as a foreign correspondent for a wide range of international media.

His work across multiple media platforms has been published by Agency France Press (AFP), Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI), Radiotelevisione Svizzera (RSI), L'Espresso, Radio24, Inter Press Service and Corriere del Ticino among others.

Throughout his career, he has covered a board range of topics, from the Catalan political crisis to drug trafficking and environmental conflicts in South America. More recently, his work has focused on environmental crimes and the illicit trade in natural resources, particularly on illegal gold mining in the Amazon region. He's skilled in the use of Open-Source Intelligence tools (OSINT) and follow-the-money techniques for environmental investigations.

In 2025, he launched the Observatory of Illicit Trade in Natural Resources (Observatorio TRN), an environmental journalism project aimed at investigating the intersection between organized crime and illicit trade in natural resources. 

He speaks Italian, Spanish, and English, and he's a member of the Spanish association of investigative journalists (API) as well as the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).