Ryan Blitstein

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Ryan Blitstein (born in San Francisco, California) is an American journalist.

A graduate of Stanford University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, he has been a staff writer at Red Herring and SF Weekly. He has lectured at San Jose State University and Stanford University.

His most well-known article was a controversial story about craigslist.org, Craig Newmark, and citizen journalism [1] that was both praised and ridiculed by bloggers, journalists, and media critics. He was also the first print journalist to write about Josh Wolf, the videoblogger jailed by a U.S. district court in 2006 for refusing to turn over a collection of videos he recorded during a protest.[2] Blitstein's work has appeared in the New York Daily News, New York Observer[3], Denver Post and Seattle Times.

During 2006 and 2007, he was a business reporter at the San Jose Mercury News, which published his three-part investigative series on cybercrime, "Ghosts in the Browser," in November 2007.[4] The project earned him a place as a Livingston Award finalist.

He is currently a freelance journalist based in Chicago and contributing editor at the public policy magazine Miller-McCune.[5]

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  • While an undergraduate, he taught a literature course on Bob Dylan.
  • The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time, by The New York Times columnist William Safire, includes excerpts from a letter Blitstein wrote to Safire as a college student.
  • Older sibling of Jonathan Blitstein

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