Diego Mendoza - News Producer, Video
Diego Mendoza
News Producer, Video
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At least 5 dead after dangerous flooding and storms hit OklahomaApr 22, 2025Severe weather in Oklahoma has left four people dead, including a 12-year-old boy and his mother, officials say.
About
Diego Mendoza is a News Producer, Video on the national desk based in CNN’s Asia-Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong, helping guide the company’s US news coverage under the company’s follow-the-sun news model.
Long passionate about video journalism, Mendoza is now part of a team that finds and acquires key video, audio, photos, and witness accounts to tell compelling stories for both TV and digital platforms — making sure that people waking up in the US are caught-up with the most important stories of the day.
Mendoza’s career started as an intern at CNN with the global programming team in 2021, helping make CNN’s homepage and top stories more accessible to audiences. After a brief stint in local news, Mendoza was later hired as one of the founding reporters at Semafor, helping launch the start-up’s breaking news team and guiding its global coverage, with a particular emphasis on China news.
Born in Mexico City and raised in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Mendoza’s cultural background has inspired him to use journalism as cross-cultural communication tool to build bridges between global communities. Mendoza graduated from the George Washington University in Washington, DC, where he studied journalism and mass communications.