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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 2017 RTDNA/NEFE Award for Personal Finance Reporting.

The radio winner is the University of North Carolina/WUNC Radio News-Talk race and Southern culture reporter Leoneda Inge for “Black Bank Movement, Fad or Here to Stay.”

The television category was won by Nextsar CBS affiliate KLAS-TV/Las Vegas reporters Michelle Mortensen and Sarita Kichok‘s “On Your Side: Saving You Time & Money” segments.

The online winner was Twin Cities PBS website Next Avenue managing editor Richard Eisenberg.

The winners each receive a $1,000 cash prize and will co-present a training seminar at the RTDNA convention, Excellence in Journalism 2017, which will be Sept. 7-9 in Anaheim, California.

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.