Ryan Thornburg
Senior Associate
Ryan teaches online news writing, reporting and editing at the University of North Carolina and is the author of Producing Online News. He was also awarded a 2011 Knight News Challenge grant to create new digital revenue streams for rural newspapers. Ryan specializes in democracy and digital media, citizen journalism, and online writing/ editing for Webbmedia Group. Ryan has traveled worldwide and has extensive experience training journalists and others.
Ryan has spent 10 years in some of the top online newsrooms in the United States, including leadership positions at The Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report and Congressional Quarterly.
Among the highlights of Ryan's newsroom career were the launch and re-launch of several Web sites and leadership of The Washington Post's online coverage of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the 2004 presidential election. Ryan has appeared as a national political analyst on CNN, MSNBC and ABC News Now in the United States as well as on CTV in Canada. His 2001 study of online political fundraising for The Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet at The George Washington University was one of the first research reports on the topic. Today, Ryan continues to consult, teach, write about and practice online journalism. At UNC, he is working on ways to collaborate with students and professional journalists to develop new editorial products and topical audience research.
Ryan lives in Chapel Hill, N.C., with his wife and two children. He received his master's degree in political management from The George Washington University in 2002, his bachelor's degree in journalism and mass communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1997.
| Languages: English. Focus: Social networks, marketing, branding, network development, semantic web. |
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