Joaquín López-Dóriga Velandia (born 8 February 1947) is a Spanish Mexican journalist. He started working as a journalist for the daily El Heraldo de México at the age of 18, and two years later he joined Jacobo Zabludovsky in the television news program 24 Horas. In 1988 he was appointed news director of the Instituto Mexicano de la Televisión (Imevisión). López-Dóriga is known for spinning his chair at the end of his program on Canal de las Estrellas.