I generate story ideas for articles about personal finance, concentrating on content about mortgages and real estate for a consumer readership. While coming up with story ideas, I analyze keywords and key phrases that will attract readers.I communicate with staff reporters and freelance writers during the reporting process to ensure that we end up with the story that I assigned. I use SEO search engine optimization best practices when writing headlines and story summaries. I generate ideas for photos, cartoons, quizzes, videos, Vines, graphs, charts and tables to illustrate the articles with eye-grabbing visual elements. I coordinate with the artists and producers who create the visual content. I promote content on social media such as Twitter, Facebook and Google+.I work with the content marketing department to help fulfill the editorial needs of our content partners. I represent Bankrate at professional conferences, moderating panel discussions and sitting on discussion panels. As a mortgage analyst, I am interviewed by reporters in all media about the exclusive content that I help create, such as the annual survey of mortgage closing costs.I recruit, hire and train staff reporters and interns to write about mortgages and other personal finance topics. I also find and train freelance reporters.If you want to discuss hiring me, contact me at holden.lewis.editorial@gmail.com

I wrote articles and blog posts about mortgages and real estate for a consumer readership. I generated my own story ideas, helped editors develop story ideas that they assigned to me, developed a large stable of knowledgeable sources. I won numerous writing and blogging awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, the Society of Professional Journalists and the National Association of Real Estate Editors.With NAREE, I moderated several panel discussions at the association's annual meetings and sat as a panelist at one or two discussions. I was a NAREE board member for several years and was president in 2009.If you want to discuss hiring me, contact me at holden.lewis.editorial@gmail.com

In 1996, I persuaded The Blade's management to start the newspaper's website. I created and developed the editorial side of the website in 1997 as The Blade's first online editor. I troubleshot the interface between the mainframe in the newsroom and the network of PCs that comprised the website in those early days. I worked alongside the very green tech department, helping them to find experts who could teach them to run the technical side of the site.If you want to discuss hiring me, contact me at holden.lewis.editorial@gmail.com