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Mirta Ojito

Ojito, Mirta (Cuba)

Periodista y escritora. Es autora de dos libros: El Mañana (Vintage Español) y La cacería (Vintage Español). En ambos trata temas de inmigración, uno de los temas que más la ocupo en una carrera periodística de más de 30 años. Ha trabajado en The Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald y The New York Times, donde formó parte de un equipo que ganó el premio Pulitzer en 2001 por una serie de artículos sobre el tema racial en Estados Unidos. Además, durante más de nueve años fue profesora de periodismo en la Escuela de Estudios de postgrado de Periodismo en la Universidad de Columbia en New York. Actualmente trabaja para la cadena NBC en Telemundo en Miami. Participa en Mariel: un poco de historia, uno de los eventos por el cuadragésimo aniversario del Mariel.

 

Mirta Ojito is a Cuban-born author and journalist. She has written two nonfiction books, Finding Mañana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus, a book about her journey to the U.S. as a teenager in the Mariel boatlift, and Hunting Season: Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town. As a journalist, she worked at The New York Times, The Miami Herald and the Nuevo Herald. She was part of a group of New York Times reporters who shared the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2001 for a series of articles about race in America. More recently, she was a member of the Telemundo team that won an Emmy for the coverage of Pope Francis’s visit to the Americas.

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Ojito, Mirta (Cuba) Periodista y escritora. Es autora de dos libros: El Mañana (Vintage Español) y La cacería (Vintage Español). En ambos trata temas
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