{"id":3063,"date":"2014-07-24T20:03:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T20:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ona14.journalists.org\/speaker\/mekahlo-medina\/"},"modified":"2014-07-24T20:03:15","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T20:03:15","slug":"mekahlo-medina","status":"publish","type":"ona_speaker","link":"https:\/\/ona14.journalists.org\/speaker\/mekahlo-medina\/","title":{"rendered":"Mekahlo Medina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medina is the Emmy Award-winning technology and social media reporter for NBC4 Southern California. Joining the station in 2006, Medina can be seen weekdays on the NBC4 News at Noon as well as the 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. newscasts. With more than 50,000 Twitter followers and nearly 80,000 Facebook followers, Medina is one of the station\u2019s most prolific social networkers. He\u2019s also highly engaged with viewers. He uses his news stories across multiple social media platforms in both the digital sphere and on television. He is also known for leveraging the \u2018second screen\u2019 experience by encouraging the station\u2019s viewers to engage on Twitter and Facebook. Medina joined NBC4 as an anchor and manager of \u201cNews Raw,\u201d a news show that aired on the station\u2019s digital channel, which focused on hyper local news coverage, culture, technology and social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":19989,"template":"","meta":{"start_time":0,"end_time":0,"moderators":[],"hashtag":[],"soundcloud":[],"scribble":[],"viafoura":[],"youtube":[],"vimeo":[],"facebook":[],"trint":[],"slideshare":[],"livestream":[],"resources":[],"video_embed":[],"first_name":"","last_name":"","title":"News Anchor\/Reporter","organization":"NBC4 Los Angeles - KNBC","website":"http:\/\/NBCLA.com","twitter":"mekahlonbcla","_sponsor_url":"","_sponsor_tagline":"","_sponsor_level":"","spay_email":""},"event":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona14.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/3063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona14.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona14.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ona_speaker"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona14.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona14.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona14.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event?post=3063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}