{"id":1095,"date":"2019-08-08T15:41:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T20:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nabjmonitor.com\/2020\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2019-08-09T12:23:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T17:23:00","slug":"youngest-time-magazine-for-kids-reporter-stands-tall-at-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nabjmonitor.com\/2020\/youngest-time-magazine-for-kids-reporter-stands-tall-at-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"Youngest TIME Magazine for Kids Reporter stands tall at convention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Alexis Grace<br><em>NABJ Monitor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Tiana Sirmans knows a thing or two about chasing dreams.\u00a0The 9-year-old is the youngest journalist for \u201cTIME Magazine for Kids\u201d and a member of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sirmans said she began writing at 3 years old, starting with poems, scripts and books. She hopes to own her own publication one day, and she is looking forward to telling stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tiana has received plenty of recognition from her peers and teachers since her work was noticed in the third grade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has been learning networking at the National Association of Black Journalists Convention and Career Fair in Miami this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cI love meeting new people and doing new things, so this definitely gives me the opportunity to do something I love,\u201d Tiana said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While she looks up to many journalists, Robin Roberts of \u201cGood Morning America\u201d and Alicia Vitarelli of \u201cABC Action News in Philadelphia\u201d are her favorites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her mother has even given her a task at this convention.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have to come back with a job,\u201d Tiana said with a laugh. She advises children like her to not be afraid of chasing their goals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen you say you can and actually believe in yourself, then you can make your dreams come true,\u2019\u2019&nbsp; Tiana said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She dreams about becoming a journalist and a motivational speaker when she grows up. She has already started thinking about what she might say: \u201c Keep believing and don\u2019t stop dreaming.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/662538806&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Tiana Sirmans knows a thing or two about chasing dreams.  <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nabjmonitor.com\/2020\/youngest-time-magazine-for-kids-reporter-stands-tall-at-convention\/\" title=\"Youngest TIME Magazine for Kids Reporter stands tall at convention\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,83],"tags":[98,100],"class_list":{"0":"post-1095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-features","8":"category-nabj-19","9":"tag-tiana-sirmans","10":"tag-time-magazine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nabjmonitor.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nabjmonitor.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nabjmonitor.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nabjmonitor.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nabjmonitor.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.nabjmonitor.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/www.nabjmonitor.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nabjmonitor.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nabjmonitor.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nabjmonitor.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nabjmonitor.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}