PERSON: Shannon Ryan

ABC13 Eyewitness News

Reporter

Shannon Ryan spent the last four years at FOX 7 Austin working as a crime, courts and investigative reporter. She extensively covered Austin’s reimagining public safety initiative, housing crisis, public corruption, legal system and violent crime. Ryan traveled to cover extreme weather and news on the border as part of FOX’s O&O group. She started her career in Washington, D.C. working as an anchor, producer and multimedia journalist for D.C. News Now (DCW50.)

Ryan has worked as a television, print and photojournalist with bylines in The New York Times, ESPN, Associated Press and Washington Post.

Ryan is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University. She earned degrees in broadcast journalism and political science. As a student, she interned for CBS News covering the 2016 presidential election from their Washington, D.C. bureau. She also covered the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro for the Associated Press through the Curley Center for Sports Journalism. Her work highlighting poor conditions for those living with disabilities in the city placed in the Hearst Multimedia News II Competition. Ryan was part of the university’s international reporting program and traveled to Greece to cover technology used to track human smugglers. She also worked with the Big 10 Network, FOX 29 Philadelphia, ESPNU, and WNYT Channel 13.

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