{"id":8069,"date":"2025-07-22T20:56:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T20:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/?p=8069"},"modified":"2025-07-30T15:22:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T20:22:51","slug":"newsroom-visits-inspire-cherubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/07\/newsroom-visits-inspire-cherubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsroom visits inspire career opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The news station tours in Chicago led cherubs to explore new fields and reimagine their careers as they walked around live news sets, spoke to journalists and took photos.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the CBS Chicago tour, Kai Shah of Burlingame, California, wasn\u2019t expecting to catch a glimpse into the future with just one photo.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt was really cool, and I thought the tour guide was really nice for using me as an example for how I like sports and related that to chasing what you want and showing experience in what you want to pursue,\u201d Shah said. \u201cI\u2019ve always been interested in sports broadcasting, so it definitely gave me a sense for what that could look like in the future if I get that job.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over at the Wall Street Journal, Glennis Woosley of Nixa, Missouri, said that though she was worried because she didn\u2019t know a lot about finance journalism, it worked out well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cNow I have a little bit of a better understanding of what field I like, what beat I want to go into and how I&#8217;ll go into it,\u201d Woosley said. \u201cI might actually do business journalism at the start to figure out what I want because it&#8217;s so universal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eva Berkson of Brookline, Massachusetts, said going to the local Fox affiliate station wasn\u2019t her top choice but \u201cexceeded her expectations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI&#8217;m still not sure what I want to do, but I do think I hadn&#8217;t thought about broadcast that much, so it&#8217;s really cool to see it in person, and it definitely made me excited about it,\u201d Berkson said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cherubs catch a glance of a career and make new connections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":8571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,18],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[492],"class_list":["post-8069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city","category-going-to-chicago"],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":492,"user_id":247,"is_guest":0,"slug":"irenepark","display_name":"Irene Park","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/928b685569f35f3845407ad0d36af0f7091152a9bceaf095c1fe4126889921ed?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Park","first_name":"Irene","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8069"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10334,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8069\/revisions\/10334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8069"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=8069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}