Welcome to the online home of Chicago journalist Ryan Blitstein, a contributing editor at Miller-McCune and a former staff reporter at the San Jose Mercury News. Ryan’s work has appeared in TIME, The New York Times, and BusinessWeek, among others. He has been a Livingston Award finalist and Society of Professional Journalists award winner. Check out Ryan’s best recent stories below, or click above to learn more.
Mar 1st, 2009
Science is getting closer to understanding what makes people happy. What can politicians do about it?
Dec 29th, 2008
America, Europe, and the developing world are losing tens of billions of dollars to a cybercrime epidemic, and big business and governments are failing to protect us. Read Ryan Blitstein’s award-winning investigative series from the San Jose Mercury News.
Ryan’s controversial SF Weekly story about the much-vaunted site’s detrimental effects on the news industry, and founder Craig Newmark’s attempts to make things better.
Jun 18th, 2009
Does the stress of living in a white-dominated society make blacks get sick and die young? Apparently, yes.
Oct 30th, 2009
How a scrappy ex-farmer from Nebraska built a TV channel for rural America.
Oct 21st, 2009
An innovative, sustainable — and not-that-expensive — home in rural Illinois.
Oct 4th, 2009
Luther College professor Loren Toussaint believes the simple act of forgiving just might save your life.