Jacob Ryan
Managing Editor, KyCIRJacob Ryan is an award-winning journalist and managing editor LPM's Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting team who tenaciously reports accountability stories on a variety of subjects.
He is a recipient of a Sidney Hillman award, a national Investigative Reporters and Editors award and numerous regional and local awards.
Jacob, who joined LPM in 2014, is originally from Eddyville, Kentucky. He’s a graduate of Western Kentucky University.
Email Jacob at jryan@lpm.org.
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Reporter R.G. Dunlop examined capital punishment in Kentucky and found a system beset with delays, disparities and high costs.
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Reporters Jared Bennett and Morgan Watkins dug into court records to see what became of the Kentuckians arrested for their actions at the January 6, 2021 riots in Washington D.C.
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Reporters brought exclusive, in-depth coverage of flood cleanup profiteering, foster care abuses, police misconduct and unethical politicians.
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Jefferson County Public Schools officials canceled more than 100 bus routes Monday because dozens of bus drivers called out. By Monday morning, a total 143 drivers had called out sick.
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The Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting isn’t slowing down after 10 years of digging into systemic inequities, government corruption, injustice and harm.
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A group of Metro Council members will band together to initiate the process of removing the chair of the council’s Republican caucus, Anthony Piagentini, in the wake of an ethics commission ruling that he broke the law.
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Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg recommended local lawmakers divert $40 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds from a local health care nonprofit and move them to city parks and libraries.
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The Metro Council Republican says he will fight the commission’s ruling that he violated ethics laws. Anthony Piagentini said the Louisville Metro Ethics Commission members were biased against him and their investigation lacked the evidence needed to find he violated laws.
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Investigative reporter Chris Otts recently published an account that details a powerful local health care nonprofit’s questionable spending on businesses owned by its leader’s family members.
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A group of council members want the Louisville Metro Housing Authority to do a better job maintaining its catalog of complexes, specifically the 685-unit Dosker Manor.