I am having trouble pulling in an image with the property of "featuredImage" from the docType of "NewsArticle". What am I doing wrong?

@{
var articles = Model.AncestorOrSelf("NewsHome").Descendants("NewsCategory").Children.Where("NodeTypeAlias == \"DateFolder\"");
}
@{
<ul class="featured-listings">
    @foreach (var item in articles.OrderBy("CreateDate descending").Skip((page - 1) * pageSize).Take(pageSize))
    {
        var newsCategory = @item.AncestorOrSelf("NewsCategory");

        <li class="listing">

            <p class="tag">@newsCategory.Name - @item.CreateDate.ToShortDateString()</p>
                @if( @item.HasValue("featuredImage")){
                    var featuredImageThumb = @Model.Media("featuredImage");
                <img src="/[email protected]&width=154" />
                }
                <h3><a href="@item.Url">@item.headline</a></h3></li>
                <p class="teaser">@item.teaser</p>
    }
</ul>
}