Meredith Klein of Meredith and the Media spoke with Oyin Adedoyin, personal finance reporter at The Wall Street Journal, about her career.
Here is an excerpt:
- As a personal finance reporter at The Wall Street Journal, can you share more about your beat’s scope and what types of personal finance stories you cover?
- When I was first hired at The Wall Street Journal, I was hired as a personal finance reporting fellow, and my general directive was to write about young people and money. I was pivoting from reporting on higher education to personal finance, which are very different worlds.
- I thought, “All right, I know higher education, I know young people: I’m trying to bridge that gap and figure out how personal finance relates to all of this.” A lot of the stories that I was naturally drawn to—and still continue to write—have to do with access to education. College is one of the biggest financial hurdles that somebody is going to have to pay for in their lifetime.
- A lot of my beat focuses on that: How are people paying for college? What’s going on with the financial aid system? How are people now dealing with their student loans? But then also as young adults: How are people planting roots or creating their young adult life? Are they going about it in a different way than maybe other generations had? That’s the scope of what I like to cover.
- And then I’ve got other things I end up writing about because I’m interested in them. Like coins, physical money. I’m fascinated with the world of physical money, because nowadays, we pay for everything digitally.
- It’s created this weird relationship that we have now with physical money, where it doesn’t feel real. The government decided to stop minting new pennies earlier this year, and I was able to break that story because I have this really random interest in coins and physical money.
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