Kelsey Ryan

Ryan joined AHCJ in September 2022. Previously, she was founder and publisher of The Beacon, a nonprofit news network with newsrooms in Kansas City and Wichita. Before founding The Beacon, Ryan worked at The Kansas City Star as a data and investigative reporter, and was on the investigative team that was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service for its series on government secrecy in Kansas. She began her journalism career at The Joplin (Mo.) Globe a day after an EF-5 tornado destroyed one-third of the city, and later worked at The Wichita (Kan.) Eagle, covering health care and later city government and investigations. She is a Google News Initiative Fellow in Poynter’s Media Transformation Challenge executive fellowship program and was selected in 2022 for Editor & Publisher’s “25 under 35” list of news publishing leaders.