Kevin Ryan (journalist)

Kevin Ryan (born February 23, 1988)[1] is an Irish-American journalist,[2][3] author,[4][5] and member of the White House press corps. ​​His stories are known for their literary nonfiction approach,[6] incorporating music,[7] philosophy,[8] poetry, and drugs to explain political situations and cultural figures.

Kevin Ryan
Alma materUniversity of St. Thomas (BA) University of North Texas (MA)
OccupationJournalist
Websitehttps://www.kevinryan.us/

He won The Emerging Writer award[9] and third-place in the book proposal with “Person Pitch,” which examines the intersection of Victorian-era religious poetry, Catalan Moderne architecture and the musical genius of Kanye West at the 2019 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. [10]

He makes regular appearances on Politics Politics Politics podcast with Justin Robert Young. [11][12][13]

Ryan has a graduate degree in journalism from University of North Texas.[14] He wrote his thesis on the ethical complications of comedic journalism, focusing on John Oliver. [15]

He began his literary nonfiction career by writing profiles on journalists Michael Graff[16][17] and Jason Fagone.[18]

He has written for Dallas Observer, [19] Jazz Journal, TheBlaze, Denton Record Chronicle, Artist Uprising,[20] and Mayborn Magazine. At Dallas Observer, he garnered attention for his review of a "Weird Al" Yankovic concert at in Dallas,[21] followed by a review of Shania Twain concert he attended while under the influence of LSD, as well as his review of a noise festival for which he recruited two strangers from Reddit on the condition that they knew nothing about noise music.[22]

Ryan, in 2017, began working at TheBlaze as a staff writer and contributor.[23] He writes radio monologues for Glenn Beck.[24][25][26] For his David series, he profiled a number of controversial figures, including Dave Rubin, Christina Hoff Sommers, Jordan Peterson,[27][28] Debra Soh, Stephen Hicks, and Carol Swain.

For the past year, Ryan has been following presidential candidates as part of his election series,[29][30][31][32] with profiles on Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, and Andrew Yang, as well as cultural figures like Kanye West and Kobe Bryant, focusing on social issues not usually discussed in conservative media, particularly not from a center-left perspective.

References
  1. "Kevin Ryan Twitter page".
  2. "Dallas Observer - Kevin Ryan author page".
  3. Rubin, Dave (March 8, 2018). "Dave Rubin tweet".
  4. Ryan, Kevin (Spring 2014). "Laurels Magazine: Spring 2014".
  5. Ryan, Kevin (December 2017). "King of the News: An Agenda-Setting Approach to The John Oliver Effect" (PDF). University of North Texas.
  6. "The Power of Words" (PDF). Mayborn School of Journalism.
  7. Ryan, Kevin (November 2019). "The Happenstance of Randy Brecker" (PDF). Jazz Journal.
  8. Rectenwald, Michael (October 8, 2018). "Michael Rectenwald tweet".
  9. "Honoured Texas writer's Tipperary links". August 21, 2019.
  10. "UNT's Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference names winners of biography fellowship, reported narrative and personal essay contests".
  11. "Eulogy for Kamala Harris, Impeachment, Kanye". Politics! Politics! Politics!.
  12. "George Floyd protests, Trump Twitter War, WHO defunding, Reopening anxiety". Politics! Politics! Politics!.
  13. "Tulsa Trump Rally As It Happened! The crowds, the COVID anxiety (and lack thereof) and the protests!". Politics! Politics! Politics!.
  14. "2017 Mayborn Annual Report".
  15. "King of the News: An Agenda-Setting Approach to the John Oliver Effect". University of North Texas.
  16. Ryan, Kevin (2017). "Michael Graff's Enduring Frisson" (PDF).
  17. Graff, Michael. "Reviews".
  18. "Mayborn Magazine 2017: The Power of Words" (PDF).
  19. "Dallas Observer - Kevin Ryan". Dallas Observer.
  20. "Artist Uprising". 2018.
  21. Ryan, Kevin (April 30, 2018). "Yeah, We Cried at a Weird Al Yankovic Show — So What?". Dallas Observer.
  22. Ryan, Kevin (October 2, 2017). "We Found People Who Know Nothing About Ambient Music on Reddit and Took Them to DAMN".
  23. "LinkedIn - Kevin Ryan".
  24. "The Korean War".
  25. "Buried Treasure".
  26. "Glenn Beck celebrates the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11". July 19, 2019.
  27. "Kevin Ryan interview about Jordan Peterson on Blaze Radio".
  28. Peterson, Jordan (August 13, 2018). "Jordan Peterson tweet".
  29. "Election Series".
  30. "Can Joe Biden Survive a Third Debate?".
  31. "Behind the scenes on the Democratic campaign trail with Kevin Ryan".
  32. "BlazeTV writer Kevin Ryan discusses seeing Kamala Harris 15 times and Kanye's service with Joel Osteen".
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