{"id":15940,"date":"2016-03-09T15:01:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T20:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=15940"},"modified":"2018-01-26T01:46:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T06:46:54","slug":"provocative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=15940","title":{"rendered":"Provocative"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15941\" style=\"width: 536px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15941\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15941\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/KIERNAMayo2.jpg\" alt=\"Kierna Mayo, editor\" width=\"526\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/KIERNAMayo2.jpg 526w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/KIERNAMayo2-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15941\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kierna Mayo, editor<\/p><\/div>\n<p>She has been at Ebony for less than a year, but Kierna Mayo is already on a Tina Brown-type trajectory to change the publication, and scramble what we think of as the journalistic status quo.<\/p>\n<p>Mayo encouraged students to bring their &#8220;authentic self&#8221; to their work and to critically examine the \u00a0culture in which they cover.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[How you think] is the thing that changes you from having a job to having a career.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Create a space for your kind of thinking,&#8221; she said. &#8220;&#8230;feeling empowered matters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mayos has deep roots in magazines, including stints at <em>Honey<\/em> and <em>Cosmo Girl<\/em> and even the <em>Source<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>She also talked about the day she played hookie from work to cover and experience the street procession following the funeral of The Notorious B.I.G.<\/p>\n<p>She is credited with giving Mary J. Blige the &#8220;Queen of Hip Hop Soul&#8221; label back in the day. She visited SU&#8217;s Newhouse School as part of the Leaders in Communications series.<\/p>\n<p>Mayo is the second Hampton University graduate we&#8217;ve seen speak to the journalism students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She has been at Ebony for less than a year, but Kierna Mayo is already on a Tina Brown-type trajectory to change the publication, and scramble what we think of as the journalistic status quo. Mayo encouraged students to bring their &#8220;authentic self&#8221; to their work and to critically examine the \u00a0culture in which they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[4864,4969,145,28,4968,180,4381],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15940"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24586,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15940\/revisions\/24586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}