Megan Ryan Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Lead a team of five reporters covering topics such as real estate, retail, energy and economyo Strategically plan print/digital products, including story ideation, editing, formulating SEO headlines and web publishingo Organize weekly knowhow section aimed at consumer questions and collaborate on a daily newslettero Edited and managed project on income mobility: five diverse, data-driven stories that collectively drew more than 50,000 sessionso Foster newsroom connectivity and progress through several internal committees (hiring, internships and training)o Run the Star Tribune’s annual virtual internship/early career job fair for about 75 young journalists

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Covered the Minnesota Twins (2021-23), Minnesota United FC in a brand new position (2017-18) and Gophers college sports, including football and hockey (2019-20)• Assisted on other beats, mainly as backup for the Minnesota Wild

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Covered Penn State, high school sports, Robert Morris basketball, Riverhounds soccer and other college and professional beats on general assignment• Copy edited on the universal desk once a week

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Worked with sports desk to cover high school football among other assignments

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Worked with sports desk to cover professional teams such as the Twins, Lynx, Vikings and United as well as various youth and prep sports.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Worked with sports desk to cover all prep sports through question and answers, features, previews and game reports• Scored games online, ran commentary thread on website, live tweeted and took photos or videos

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Recipient of the Big Ten conference’s 2013 William R. Reed Memorial Award• Only college newspaper sports staff named to Sports Illustrated’s 25 Under 25 in October 2013• Stories recognized with Society of Professional Journalists and Associated Collegiate Press awards• Frequent guest on sports radio shows at 1500 ESPN and 105 The Ticket• Wrote previews, reviews and feature stories for multiple beats – more than 200 articles and 115 blogs• Edited all sports desk stories, wrote headlines and decks, assisted in layout and co-led a desk of seven reporters

White Plains, N.Y.

• Worked with the universal and digital desks to edit sports and news stories for grammar, AP style and space• Wrote headlines and photo captions for three editions of the newspaper• Pulled stories from the AP and other wires and sent stories to the website

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Collaborated with the sports desk to compile prep sports scores

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Acquired local media coverage through press releases, pitches and media advisories• Planned events like the 2011 Minnesota Visit of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama• Wrote articles for the Mandala magazine and other University of Minnesota publications• Created and managed websites and social media accounts