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A personal finance site with a mission to educate

Jennifer Barrett

Tanaya Macheel of Tearsheet writes about how personal finance app Acorns has created a magazine called Grow aimed at personal finance education.

Macheel writes, “In the age of infinite content, every financial brand has a content marketing strategy. But Acorns, the popular microinvesting app, insists its online magazine is part of a much deeper mission to educate customers.

“In the winter of 2015, Acorns hired Jennifer Barrett — who came from CNBC and has held various editorial roles covering personal finance at Daily Worth, Newsweek and The Street, as well as other roles at Hearst Magazines and NBC Universal — to launch and run Grow, a personal finance site for millennials that’s separate from the app itself, as its founding editor. The following summer, she added another title to her name: chief education officer of Acorns.

“‘When we launched the Grow site at the beginning of last year, there really wasn’t much out there that was targeting millennials in terms of money sites,’ Barrett said. ‘That’s obviously changed in the last year and a half. But at the time… we were filling that need.'”

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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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