Ryan Lane

Assigning Editor  |  Small business, student loans

Ryan Lane is an editor on NerdWallet’s small-business team. He joined NerdWallet in 2019 as a student loans writer, serving as an authority on that topic after spending more than a decade at student loan guarantor American Student Assistance. In that role, Ryan co-authored the Student Loan Ranger blog in partnership with U.S. News & World Report, as well as wrote and edited content about education financing and financial literacy for multiple online properties, e-courses and more. Ryan also previously oversaw the production of life science journals as a managing editor for publisher Cell Press. Ryan is located in Rochester, New York.

  • Education: B.S. in journalism from Syracuse University
  • Previous experience: Writer and editor, American Student Assistance; managing editor, Cell Press

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The New York Times, USA Today, MarketWatch, Yahoo Finance, The Washington Post, ABC News

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