Personal finance reporting winners are announced

The Radio Television Digital News Association and the National Endowment for Financial Education have announced the winners of the 2018 RTDNA/NEFE Award for Personal Finance Reporting.

The winners are:

• The radio winner is Jill Schlesinger, CBS News business analyst, CBS News Radio Network for Jill on Money. Schlesinger hosts a radio call-in program offering financial advice. She offers practical advice to a real-life couple approaching retirement. She walks through goals and how to achieve them.
• The digital winner is Susannah Snider, personal finance editor, U.S News & World Report for The Problem With PLUS: How Parents Buckle Under the Weight of College Debt. This four-part series, produced in partnership with the McGraw Center for Business Journalism at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism, investigated why parents opt to leverage their own financial futures for their children.
• The television winner is Jason Wheeler, anchor/reporter, WFAA-TV for Is It Worth It: Property Values & Taxes. Many people don’t understand how taxes go up even when the tax rate stays unchanged. Even those who do understand wonder whether it’s worth it to challenge their tax liability. WFAA set out to explain the process plainly, give property owners tools to protest extraordinary valuation increases, and tell them how they can also get involved in changing the system responsible for their skyrocketing tax bills.