Community hub
Recent from talks
Contribute something
Nothing was collected or created yet.
Missy Ryan
View on Wikipedia
Missy Ryan is an American journalist focused on national security at The Atlantic. She previously wrote for The Washington Post and Reuters.[1][2]
Key Information
Education
[edit]Ryan received a B.A. in English Literature from Georgetown University in 1997. She then completed a master's degree at the Harvard Kennedy School in 2005.
Career
[edit]Ryan started as a Correspondent covering Iraq in 2008 for Reuters News Agency. She was made Deputy Bureau Chief in Baghdad in 2010.[3] Ryan was then posted to Mexico for four months as the Acting Bureau Chief before returning to Washington to serve as Pentagon Correspondent.
In 2012, Ryan became a White House fellow and won the New York Press Club award for political reporting in 2012.[4][5] She became National Security and US-Middle East Correspondent in 2013. Ryan joined The Washington Post in 2014 to cover the Pentagon.[6]
In 2025, Ryan joined The Atlantic to cover national security.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Missy Ryan, The Washington Post". The Washington Post.
- ^ "Commentary". uk.reuters.com. Archived from the original on July 11, 2017. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
- ^ Sherwood, Harriet (August 22, 2011). "Libya: journalists trapped at hotel amid fighting". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
- ^ "White House Appoints 2012-2013 Class Of White House Fellows". whitehouse.gov. September 4, 2012. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
- ^ "The New York Press Club | Awards for Journalism". www.nypressclub.org. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
- ^ "Missy Ryan Jumps from Reuters to WaPo". Cision. September 22, 2014. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
- ^ "The Atlantic Hires Missy Ryan as Staff Writer". The Atlantic. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
External links
[edit]- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Missy Ryan on Twitter
- Missy Ryan on LinkedIn