{"id":201,"date":"2017-04-13T17:23:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T17:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/?p=201"},"modified":"2017-05-05T15:17:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T15:17:22","slug":"buzzfeed-managing-editor-kate-nocera-01-speaks-to-williston-journalism-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/2017\/04\/13\/buzzfeed-managing-editor-kate-nocera-01-speaks-to-williston-journalism-class\/","title":{"rendered":"BuzzFeed Managing Editor Kate Nocera &#8217;01 Speaks to Williston Journalism Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-206\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/files\/2017\/04\/Kate-Nocera-4-262x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/files\/2017\/04\/Kate-Nocera-4-262x300.jpg 262w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/files\/2017\/04\/Kate-Nocera-4-218x250.jpg 218w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/files\/2017\/04\/Kate-Nocera-4.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/>With the aid of Skype, Matt Liebowitz&#8217;s journalism class spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/katenocera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kate Nocera &#8217;01<\/a>, from her Washington, D.C., office where she&#8217;s managing editor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BuzzFeed News<\/a>. Last Friday, as Republicans in Congress were about to invoke the &#8220;nuclear option&#8221; to facilitate the confirmation\u00a0of Pres. Donald Trump&#8217;s Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, Nocera took a break from the hectic\u00a0day to answer questions from students.<\/p>\n<p>Ava Yates &#8217;17\u00a0asked Nocera\u00a0about her involvement in journalism while she was a student at Williston. Nocera answered that she was more about fiction writing then. Ellie Wolfe &#8217;19\u00a0asked if sources took BuzzFeed seriously. Cat jokes aside, Nocera responded, readers respect the award-winning international coverage BuzzFeed provides (this year the site was nominated for a Pulitzer for international reporting). Mr. Liebowitz\u00a0asked how she got her start. Nocera described her beginnings in journalism as a beat reporter for the New York<em> Daily News<\/em> covering cops, courts, and school committee meetings.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-207\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/files\/2017\/04\/Kate-Nocera-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/files\/2017\/04\/Kate-Nocera-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/files\/2017\/04\/Kate-Nocera-250x179.jpg 250w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/files\/2017\/04\/Kate-Nocera.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>As her career\u00a0progressed, she worked for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Politico<\/a>, and in 2013, moved to BuzzFeed.\u00a0Nocera is a recipient of the <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalpress.org\/awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Press Foundation&#8217;s 2014 Dirksen Award<\/a> for distinguished reporting on Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Her favorite part of the job? Access. &#8220;I can walk up to any member of Congress and ask them anything I want.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the aid of Skype, Matt Liebowitz&#8217;s journalism class spoke to Kate Nocera &#8217;01, from her Washington, D.C., office where she&#8217;s managing editor of BuzzFeed News. Last Friday, as Republicans in Congress were about to invoke the &#8220;nuclear option&#8221; to facilitate the confirmation\u00a0of Pres. Donald Trump&#8217;s Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, Nocera took a break &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/2017\/04\/13\/buzzfeed-managing-editor-kate-nocera-01-speaks-to-williston-journalism-class\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BuzzFeed Managing Editor Kate Nocera &#8217;01 Speaks to Williston Journalism Class<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}