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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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After a year of turmoil, the future of the state’s largest school district is uncertain as Republican lawmakers begin discussions about restructuring. We want to know what you think.
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KyCIR’s Jess Clark is reporting on a newly formed task force that could set the stage for breaking up the state’s largest school district. Here are details on the group’s aim, the controversy and the secrets that are giving opponents pause.
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Local officials want a judge to reverse a Kentucky Attorney General decision that found Louisville Metro Police violated the state’s open records laws.
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In Louisville, police can collect your cell phone data with the help of a controversial tool that costs thousands of dollars. But they won’t talk much about it.
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Louisville Public Media reporters spent months uncovering the dirty world of disaster clean-up that followed the devastating 2022 floods in eastern Kentucky.
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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.