Nuria Esperanza Piera Gainza (born 29 June 1960) is a Dominican journalist specializing in investigative journalism.

Piera is CEO of NCDN,[6] a news production company in CDN (channel 37); she is also owner of Provideo.

[7][8] Piera was born in Santo Domingo to immigrants from Spain: her mother was Basque and her father was Catalan.

[11] In September 2013, a news investigation led by Piera revealed that the Papal Nuncio of Santo Domingo, Józef Wesołowski, whom Pope Francis had dismissed, was not removed from office due to a dispute he held for three years with Puerto Rican Cardinal Roberto González Nieves, as stated in the Italian and Dominican press and as insinuated by the archbishop of Santo Domingo Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez,[12][13] but instead due to the consumption of alcoholic beverages in areas of dubious reputation and abuse of children and adolescent males,[14][15] This emerged as another scandal of pederasty in the Catholic Church.

[17][18] In May 2023, human rights organizations Amnesty International and Citizen Lab confirmed that a mobile device belonging to Nuria Piera was targeted by Pegasus spyware at least three times between 2020 and 2021, likely in connection to Piera's investigations of governmental corruption and impunity.