How a personal finance columnist stays creative during the pandemic

Ellen Roesman

Canadian personal finance columnist Ellen Roseman talked with Mariana Valle-Mesen of BusinessWire about how she’s doing her job during the pandemic.

Here is an excerpt:

MVM: In what ways are you keeping your stories as creative as possible and not letting them just blend in with the overwhelming amount of COVID-19 content out there?
ER: I write a monthly column for LowestRates.ca, a site that helps people shop for mortgages, insurance and credit cards. In my April 1 column on COVID-19 resources for consumers, I used links to send them to financial expert Preet Banerjee’s YouTube series on COVID-19 and Carleton University professor Jennifer Robson’s document compiling federal and provincial benefits for people who need them.
In my May column, I looked at the pros and cons of deferring your mortgage or credit card payments. I give a few examples to show how much extra interest you’re incurring – since the skipped payments will be added to your outstanding balance or your new monthly payments when the deferral ends.

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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.