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RTDNA and NEFE launch plan to improve personal finance coverage

The Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) and the National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE) today launched a new content series that will help journalists improve their coverage of personal finance and economic issues.

Finance 411 is a new content series that will appear bi-weekly on RTDNA.org, with weekly excerpts in RTDNA’s “Communicator” newsletter. The stories and videos will be produced by professional journalists and will cover a variety of topics related to personal finance, consumer issues, the economy and more.

The first three pieces — about how to report on employment in the US,  the less is more trend in weddings, and the dual edge of Buy Now, Pay Later services — were published Thursday.

The goal of the series is to improve the public’s understanding of personal finance issues and to make better financial decisions by improving the journalism they consume on a daily basis.

“There is uniqueness and synergy between RTDNA and NEFE in that both organizations focus on effective education. With the launch of the Finance 411 resource, we hope to support journalists from all disciplines to produce thoughtful and frequent reporting on personal finance issues,” said Billy Hensley, Ph.D., president and CEO of NEFE, in a statement.

People can access all Finance 411 content at RTDNA.org/Finance411

The organizations partnered on the NEFE Personal Finance Reporting Awards from 2012-2021 as well as a digital content series for parts of the past decade.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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