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Dori Zinn

Loans Writer

About

With nearly two decades in journalism, Dori Zinn has covered loans and other personal finance topics for the better part of her career. She loves helping people learn about money, whether that’s preparing for retirement, saving for college, crafting a budget or starting to invest. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Yahoo, TIME, AP, CNET, New York Post and more.

Ever since joining her high school newspaper, loans expert Dori has been a journalist. After graduating from college, she started her freelance journey while working full time for other companies.

She has led talks and discussions aimed at helping journalists as well as help organize conferences and conventions for professional and student journalists.

While Dori originally started her career writing about food, she moved on to covering the local community, then writing and editing a parenting and pediatrics website. Most of her career has been writing about loans and other money matters, and she prefers researching and writing about underrepresented communities.

Expertise

  • Loans
  • Mortgages
  • Personal Finance

Achievements

  • More than a decade writing about money
  • More than two decades as a journalist
  • Served as president of the Florida Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists
  • Work has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, USA Today and more

Other Publications

Education

  • Florida Atlantic University (B.A., Multimedia Studies)
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About

With nearly two decades in journalism, Dori Zinn has covered loans and other personal finance topics for the better part of her career. She loves helping people learn about money, whether that’s preparing for retirement, saving for college, crafting a budget or starting to invest. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Yahoo, TIME, AP, CNET, New York Post and more.