some work by Ryan Kailath

SantaCon NYC has long defended against public pushback by claiming it raises money for charity. I dug into 10 years of their financial statements and learned that the bulk of the money was going ...

https://www.ryankailath.com/post/748136953776619520

I was one of 10 mid-career journalists selected for the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism  at Columbia Business School—an intense academic year studying accountin...

https://www.ryankailath.com/post/722574976688979968

For Higher Ground , the production company of Barack and Michelle Obama, I reported, wrote, edited, and/or produced four of the nine episodes of The Sum of Us , an extension of Heather McGhee ’...

https://www.ryankailath.com/post/691891989849964544

I reported for 99% Invisible on how a movie theater construction boom in the late 1990s created so many new screens so fast, it actually changed the distribution model of Hollywood, and thus cha...

https://www.ryankailath.com/post/677377727420088320

NPR brought me on as a reporter on the business desk , based in the New York office.

https://www.ryankailath.com/post/645091697571823616

KUOW brought me on as an editor, fielding pitches, making assignments, and editing daily radio stories for 10 reporters.

https://www.ryankailath.com/post/634502965875671040

NPR pulled me in for some coverage of issues affecting the way we work post-COVID.

https://www.ryankailath.com/post/628158670362034176

I helped WIRED Magazine and Condé Nast to launch their new show Get WIRED .

https://www.ryankailath.com/post/628158460885975040

I got back to the U.S. in March to find all my projects cancelled. So I picked up a little work and a lot of volunteering: reporting on the Gulf Coast states (my former stomping grounds) for The ...

https://www.ryankailath.com/post/620917965418905600

2019 was my first year freelancing! There’s a lot of pressure on freelancers to highlight all the big stuff we did. But we talk less about the gigs we took to make ends meet. I did plenty of t...

https://www.ryankailath.com/post/190570827005

As a freelancer, I stepped in last-minute to one-off produce this episode of the Gimlet/WSJ collaboration “The Journal.”

https://www.ryankailath.com/post/189148507275

I helped make ESPN 30 for 30′s five-part series “The Sterling Affairs ,” in collaboration with Western Sound .

https://www.ryankailath.com/post/187053572120

I spent a few weeks covering as a legislative correspondent in the New York State Capitol. Stories from the Capitol Bureau air on 10 NPR stations, from WNYC to WBFO. Just two of MANY clips below....

https://www.ryankailath.com/post/184579724020

I spent the fall launching “The Argument "—an opinion section podcast from The New York Times. I created the process and workflow, on-boarded the hosts, delivered the pilots and worked on ear...

https://www.ryankailath.com/post/179626778380

When Apple became the first public company to be worth $1 trillion, NPR pulled me in for ongoing coverage, including spots, features, web posts, and a live hit on Morning Edition / Up First.

https://www.ryankailath.com/post/177346483790

For NPR, I met the people who write fake Amazon reviews for cash , and put one of them on the radio. I also got Amazon to go on tape, which is rare. I actually reported this story two months prio...

https://www.ryankailath.com/post/177346353385

I spent 14 months as a general assignment reporter for Marketplace in the New York bureau, where I covered everything from bond yields to the Iran deal to how sandwiches explain trade deficits ....

https://www.ryankailath.com/post/173773707395

My story for NPR about Louisiana’s retreat from storms, flooding and rising seas.

https://www.ryankailath.com/post/156629015715

My story for NPR’s All Things Considered on the Dec. 2016 runoff election for U.S. Senate in Louisiana.

https://www.ryankailath.com/post/154174292470

A piece from my investigation on new federal flood maps, which encourage people to live/work/invest in highly-risky, flood-prone areas.

https://www.ryankailath.com/post/151169967635