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Jairo Mejia is currently a US Defense and National Security correspondent for Agencia Efe, the largest newswire in Spanish. He covers the Pentagon and other major institutions in Washington on a daily basis. He started his tenure in the District of Columbia the year before the 2012 presidential election, an event that took him to several states around the country. Covering that campaign, he started to use new data gathering tools and worked on new projects to create innovative products for Efe's online clients. He is a former Journalist Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford (2014).