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The NYFWA’s Financial Follies is next week

Financial Follies 2016

The New York Financial Writers’ Association “Financial Follies” is coming on Nov. 13.

This year’s show is free for everyone, but  you need to register in order to get the Zoom link for the event, which you can do here: SIGN UP TO TAKE PART IN THIS YEAR’S FOLLIES HERE.

While this year’s Financial Follies will be free of charge, any financial contributions will be greatly appreciated. Proceeds from the Financial Follies are used to support the NYFWA’s annual scholarships, which we are determined to continue giving out to deserving New York-area journalism students, despite the financial stress of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Donations to the NYFWA Education Scholarship Foundation can be made through the following link: DONATE HERE or by contacting the NYFWA’s executive director, Britt Erica Tunick, at: contact@nyfwa.org The NYFWA Education Scholarship Foundation is a 501(c)(3) and donations to this year’s event are 100% tax-deductible.

The 2020 Financial Follies Schedule:

6:30 p.m.: Virtual Cocktail Hour

7:30 p.m.: 2020 Financial Follies Show

8:00 p.m.-“ish”: Post Show Cocktail Party Socializing

Once you log into Zoom you’ll be randomly assigned to a breakout room where you can socialize and network with other journalists, public relations specialists and financial industry professionals and you will have the ability to see who is in each breakout room and freely move yourself between rooms.

Following the cocktail hour, all attendees will be brought back to the main Zoom room where there will be a short message from this year’s NYFWA president, followed by the presentation of this year’s show and all the videos, tweets and contributions that comprise it.

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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