{"id":3437,"date":"2015-01-20T20:36:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T01:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/01\/20\/jessica-taylor-beats-the-clock\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:35:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:35:43","slug":"jessica-taylor-beats-the-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/jessica-taylor-beats-the-clock\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Taylor beats the clock on MSNBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/jessica-taylor1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16095 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/jessica-taylor1.jpg\" alt=\"jessica-taylor1\" width=\"220\" height=\"221\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 220px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 220\/221;\" \/><\/a>Jessica Taylor, a 2007 Furman graduate who serves as campaign editor for <em>The Hill<\/em> newspaper in Washington, D.C., recently appeared on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/up\/watch\/-tournament-of-champions--advances-385708099525\">MSNBC\u2019s Up Against the Clock \u201cTournament of Champions.\u201d<\/a><\/strong> Taylor demonstrated her knowledge of national politics by defeating opponents Luke Russert of NBC and Krystal Ball of MSNBC and advancing to the national championship round of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Hill<\/em> is one of the country&#8217;s top political news sites and widely read Capitol Hill publication. Taylor oversees the newspaper&#8217;s 2014 midterm and 2016 presidential coverage, manages a team of political reporters and writes her own weekly column.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor was a political science major at Furman and served as editor of <em>The Paladin<\/em>, the school newspaper. She has also worked for MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;The Daily Rundown with Chuck Todd,&#8221; The Rothenberg Political Report, National Journal\u2019s House Race Hotline and POLITICO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Taylor, a 2007 Furman graduate who serves as campaign editor for The Hill newspaper in Washington, D.C., recently appeared on MSNBC\u2019s Up Against the Clock \u201cTournament of Champions.\u201d Taylor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":14265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437","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\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}