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, Salon, and Chicago Tribune Magazine, 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.
Does the stress of living in a white-dominated society make blacks get sick and die young? Apparently, yes.
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 16th, 2009
Giving people basic facts changes their opinions on major schools issues. Is that a good thing?
The Chicago Media Future Conference
Jun 15th, 2009
Interesting gathering in Chicago last weekend about the future of news.
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