Career
Holton joined the Chicago Sun-Times as an intern after graduating from Northwestern and was hired full-time at the paper three months later. In her 15 years at the paper, she covered a variety of beats including banking, personal finance and retailing. She served as assistant business editor and business editor during her tenure. In 1996, she left the paper to join a division of Thomson Reuters as an editor of a startup banking publication and left in late 1997 to start The Lisa Company, a writing, editing and research firm. She is a partner in "Really Simple Video," a web video production joint venture with Evanston, IL-based Burlingham Productions.
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