Kevin Ridder joins AHCJ as web editor at key time with launch of new site this year

Kevin Ridder

Kevin Ridder, a journalist, editor, content material supervisor and environmental activist based mostly in Chattanooga, Tenn., has joined AHCJ as its new website editor.

Ridder will assistance direct initiatives to optimize and increase electronic content material and instructional programming across all AHCJ platforms. He will also engage in a critical purpose in the website redesign project. 

“I aim to simplicity the changeover to AHCJ’s new web-site and support make it as consumer-helpful as probable,” Ridder mentioned.

Ridder arrives to AHCJ from the SmartNews app, exactly where he served as the editorial written content manager. There he coated breaking information and served manage the company’s social media on Twitter and Instagram, obtaining steady audience growth in the course of 2022. He also performed common high-quality assurance checks to make sure articles or blog posts appeared the right way. 

Ridder earlier served as affiliate editor for The Appalachian Voice wherever he wrote about preserving endangered bats, the Appalachian pipeline resistance motion amid other matters. He also played a critical purpose in the redesign of the publication’s web-site.  Ridder current and rewrote aged world wide web internet pages, eliminated outdated or irrelevant info, workshopped new web page layouts, and furnished comments on new patterns. He also revealed digital news problems online, managed the functions calendar, and produced landing webpages for functions and calls to motion.

“We’re so thrilled to welcome Kevin to AHCJ,” said Kelsey Ryan, AHCJ’s government director. “He brings a combine of the two editorial and technical experience that will support level up our site and digital merchandise.”

In 2016, Ridder gained a bachelor’s in environmental reports with a concentration in journalism and a slight in trombone effectiveness from the University of Tennessee. 

He nevertheless performs trombone and enjoys performing stay jazz with an ensemble, investing time outside the house with his pet dog, Murdock, and hiking.