How do I check for the parent of the current blog post?

I have a site that has two different blogs: Stories and News. On the single posts page, I want to be able to check if the parent of the post is the News page so I can display some additional content. I thought one of the conditionals below might work, but having no luck. Any help?

{% if page.parent.slug == 'news' %}

{% if post.parent.slug == 'news' %}

Official response from NationBuilder Support

Blog posts are referred to as "post" on the Blog page-type, but on the individual blog posts they're a "page." Therefore, the code you're looking for is:

{% if page.parent.slug == 'news' %}

conditional code goes here

{% else %}

alternative code goes here

{% endif %}

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Ian Patrick Hines

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posted 2016-06-08 11:03:24 -0700
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Ian Patrick Hines commented
Benjamin — There’s no one-off way to do that, but the page.parent.slug tag works several levels deep (i.e., page.parent.parent.slug).
posted 2013-09-18 15:18:58 -0700
Benjamin Morrison

Benjamin Morrison commented
Repost reaction due to error: Is there a way to check for the top-level parent? So if you had a page at slug_1 – slug_2 – slug_3 the LIQUID on the page slug_3 would return “slug_1”?
posted 2013-09-18 09:25:36 -0700
John Chandler

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posted 2013-09-18 09:24:25 -0700
Benjamin Morrison

Benjamin Morrison commented
Is there a way to check for the top-level parent? So if you had a page at slug_1>slug_2>slug_3 the LIQUID on the page info3 would return “slug_1”?
posted 2013-09-18 09:24:19 -0700
John Chandler

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posted 2013-08-30 12:24:41 -0700