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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Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg told lawmakers this summer that the city’s affordable housing stock increased by 18,000 units in five years. We checked it out. -
The community center on South 37th Street in Shawnee will begin an extended closure this week. -
Join reporters from the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting and the Courier Journal to talk all things back-to-school at Louisville Public Media headquarters next Tuesday morning. -
Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg nominated former Louisville Metro Council member James Peden to a city board that reviews police killings and internal investigations. But the Republican isn’t allowed to serve. -
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. -
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. -
Local officials want a judge to reverse a Kentucky Attorney General decision that found Louisville Metro Police violated the state’s open records laws. -
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. -
Louisville Public Media reporters spent months uncovering the dirty world of disaster clean-up that followed the devastating 2022 floods in eastern Kentucky. -
Reporter R.G. Dunlop examined capital punishment in Kentucky and found a system beset with delays, disparities and high costs.
