{"id":23461,"date":"2023-03-01T15:35:57","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T20:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=23461"},"modified":"2023-03-24T14:16:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T18:16:34","slug":"brandon-tensley-to-join-capital-bs-national-team-as-politics-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/brandon-tensley-to-join-capital-bs-national-team-as-politics-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Tensley to join Capital B\u2019s national team as politics reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University alumnus Brandon Tensley &#8217;12, a German studies and political science graduate, will join the stable of reporters at <a href=\"https:\/\/capitalbnews.org\/brandon-tensley-capitalb\/?fbclid=IwAR0EZZ-9JKOu0FqBRqKcL5ezD9DvxDBW_0IlDN-pulO3JhksAbR9uBYClb4\">Capital B<\/a>, a local-national nonprofit news organization that &#8220;centers Black voices, audience needs and experiences, and partners with the communities it serves,&#8221; according to its website. Its national team produces in-depth journalism on topics of critical importance to Black people across the country, such as education, housing, health, the environment, criminal justice, and politics.<\/p>\n<p>Formerly a CNN Politics reporter, Tensley will cover the impact of policy and political movements on Black people in America, and the Black political influencers who are shaping the future.<\/p>\n<p>A Fulbright Scholar and a Henry Luce Scholar, Tensley holds a master&#8217;s in politics from the University of Oxford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tensley leaves CNN Politics to take a role with Capital B where he&#8217;ll cover the impact of policy and political movements on Black people in America, and the Black political influencers who are shaping the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":23464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1919,6,16,32],"tags":[1921,1920],"class_list":["post-23461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-capital-b","category-in-the-news","category-modern-languages-and-literature","category-politics-and-international-affairs","tag-black-influencers","tag-black-journalism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}