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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) will provide 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 will participate in a two-day workshop. The training will address the full spectrum of critical personal finance topics, including investing, consumer debt, financial planning, mortgages, and retirement planning.

 

 

Program Updates:

 

Chris Roush, the founding director of the Carolina Business News Initiative, instructs workshop participants of the Hispanic Personal Finance Reporting Program in New York about investment options including mutual funds, stocks and bonds.

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This program is made possible thanks to the generous support of:

The McGraw-Hill Companies

  



 

 

 

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Program Dates:

January 16-17, 2009

Program Location:

Denver

For more information contact: 

Isaac Itman
Program Officer
Email: iitman@icfj.org
Phone: 202-349-7603
Address: 1616 H St. NW 3rd Fl.
Washington, DC 20006

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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