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Personal finance contest seeks entries

The Radio Television Digital News Association and the National Endowment for Financial Education Personal Finance Award contest is currently seeking entries from radio, television and online platforms.

The deadline to apply is July 1.

Winners will receive $1,000 prize and a trip to the Excellence in Journalism 2016 conference in New Orleans this September. They will also have a chance to co-present a “Money Matters” session at the conference.

Go to RTDNA’s website to submit. Registration is $25 for RTDNA members and $50 for non-members

Last year’s winners were Courtney Collins, KERA-FM Dallas, in the radio category for “One Crisis Away: Inside a Neighborhood,” Melanie Hicken and Blake Ellis, CNN Atlanta, in the online category for “The Secret World of Government Debt Collection,” and Michelle Mortensen and Sarita Kichok, KLAS-TV Las Vegas, Nevada, in the television category for “8 On Your Side Consumer Series.”

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.