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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).
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August 26, 2015 •
Digital News, Recent •
by Jairo Mejia
As a foreign correspondent for a large news agency, I know how important it is to improve the flow of meaningful news and information to clients’ newsrooms. That task is increasingly challenging as social media (especially Twitter)...
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April 3, 2015 •
Digital News, Research •
by Jairo Mejia
News agencies can and should respond to the new media and technological environment, according to new research. In ‘Reinventing the wire: how to prepare for constant disruptions’, Jairo Mejia, a Washington correspondent for the...
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