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Hispanic Personal Finance Reporting Program
Improving Personal Finance Literacy in Hispanic Communities:
A Training Program for Latino Journalists
Purpose
The Hispanic Personal Finance Reporting Program of the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) provided hands-on training to Latino journalists working at Spanish-and English-language news organizations in the United States. Between 10 and 15 journalists from print, radio, television and on-line media outlets participated in a two-day workshop. The training addressed the full spectrum of critical personal finance topics, including investing, consumer debt, financial planning, mortgages, and retirement planning.
Program Updates:
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 "This training was extremely valuable and important because there is no other type of workshop that exists like this one. Thank you very much," - José Melendrez, a Peruvian-born journalist and founder of www.laalcancia.com , the first NYC-based Hispanic personal finance website.
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 El Centro Internacional para Periodistas (ICFJ por sus siglas en inglés), llevó a cabo recientemente el 2do. Programa McGraw-Hill sobre Cobertura de Finanzas Personales de Hispanos, dirigido a periodistas que laboran en medios de comunicación en español en la ciudad de Nueva York.
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 Gery Vereau, a participant in the New York workshops on Personal Finance, took what he learned to a new job where he continues to tackle finance issues for Hispanics.
Gery, who works for the weekly Latin Week, said: "The seminar helped me a lot in my work and here it is a story published September 8.
To read this story in Spanish, click read more.
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The problem for many reporters is that they’re not experts in personal finance –even though they probably have had to address personal finance issues such as balancing their checkbook, determining how to save money for retirement or buying a home.
The goal of this online tutorial is to give you a basic overview of personal finance so that you’ll feel more comfortable writing about money.
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For more information contact:
Natasha Tynes
ntynes@icfj.org
202-349-7603
1616 H St. NW 3rd Fl.
Washington, DC 20006
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The Hispanic Personal Finance Reporting Program: Two Parts
Sponsored by the McGraw-Hill Companies
Two workshops provided hands-on training to journalists with the aim of to improving personal finance literacy in Hispanic communities in the United States. The program was aimed specifically at Latino journalists at Spanish-and English-language Hispanic news organizations in New York City and the Washington, D.C., metro areas.
The 2007 Sustainable Development and Conservation in the Gulf of California Workshop
Sponsored by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and the International Community Foundation
Partner: Center of Journalism and Public Ethics (CEPET) and Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism
This project helped build the capacity of the news media to cover the Gulf of California’s development issues in depth. Growth issues ranged from the construction of a coastal highway, real estate development, tourism policies, agriculture, aquaculture, and climate change.
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