Ryan Grim

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Ryan Grim
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Grim in 2009
Born (1978-03-23) March 23, 1978 (age 46) [1]
Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Education St. Mary's College of Maryland (BA)
University of Maryland, College Park (MPP)
OccupationJournalist

Ryan W. Grim (born March 23, 1978) [1] is an American author and journalist. Grim was Washington, D.C. bureau chief for HuffPost and formerly the Washington, D.C. bureau chief for The Intercept . [2] [3] In July 2024, Grim and The Intercept's co-founder Jeremy Scahill left The Intercept to co-found Drop Site News. [4] He is an author and has published some of his books through Strong Arm Press, an independent progressive publishing house he cofounded. [5] [6] Grim and conservative journalist Emily Jashinsky were the regular Friday hosts of Rising before they resigned in September 2022 and joined Breaking Points , where they host the show Counterpoints. [7]

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Early life and education

Grim was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from St. Mary's College of Maryland, and Master of Public Policy from the University of Maryland, College Park. [8] [9]

Career

After earning his master's degree, Grim worked as a legislative analyst for the Marijuana Policy Project. Grim has written about the history of drug use and drug culture in the United States. He has presented his research on why drugs are popular at certain times in history and his thoughts on the government's war on drugs. He also worked as a stockbroker in New York City.[ citation needed ]

Grim joined HuffPost (then The Huffington Post) in January 2009. [10] In his role heading a team at HuffPost, reporters on the team twice made finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. [10] [11] Towards the end of his tenure at HuffPost, significant leadership changes were occurring, sparked by Arianna Huffington's exit. [12]

The Intercept

Grim left his position at HuffPost in 2017 after nine years with the paper, joining The Intercept to head its Washington, D.C. bureau. [10] According to Politico, while at The Intercept, Grim focused the media organization's policy interests towards people who are "progressive welfare state enthusiasts, anti-interventionists and surveillance paranoids". [10]

During the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination, Grim was the first to report that California Senator Dianne Feinstein had received a letter related to Kavanaugh, later revealed to be from Christine Blasey Ford, alleging that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted its author in high school. [12] [13] Grim also reported on former Trump aide Rob Porter's abuse allegations by his ex-wives. He reported early on the 2018 campaign of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. [12]

In August 2020, Grim used emails from the University of Massachusetts Amherst chapter of the College Democrats to dismantle an attempt to smear progressive candidate Alex Morse. [14]

In 2023, Grim obtained and published a leaked Pakistani diplomatic cable alleging U.S. State Department pressure on the Pakistani government to remove Prime Minister Imran Khan from office in 2022. [15]

Drop Site News

In July 2024, Grim and Jeremy Scahill, the co-founder of The Intercept, founded Drop Site News. [4] [16] Although there was previously friction between the pair and The Intercept board, Drop Site is backed with some funding by The Intercept. [4] [17]

Publishing

Following the move to The Intercept, Grim and Alex Lawson established Strong Arm Press, a small imprint printing press. Grim launched the press because he felt that the first Trump administration was moving too quickly for the standard publishing cycle, which takes around a year to publish a book. He launched Strong Arm Press to accommodate shorter, cheaper, lower-volume books with a shorter publishing turnaround time. The first title published was Out of the Ooze, a profile of Tom Price that reached Amazon's top 100 list. Books are funded through crowdfunding campaigns. [5] Grim published We've Got People, a history of progressivism and the Democratic Party, through Strong Arm Press in 2019. [18] [19]

Notable corrections

In 2016, Grim published a blog post in which he questioned FiveThirtyEight 's models and predictions for the 2016 United States presidential election. Grim's criticisms were later repudiated by FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver, and Grim issued corrections to his post. [20] [21] [22]

Publications

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  14. ↑ Featherstone, Liza (August 13, 2020). "The Left Needs to Stop Falling for Absurd Sex Panics". Jacobin. Thankfully, the Intercept's Ryan Grim stepped in to reveal that there weren't even any "victims" of "discomfort" or "power dynamics." Messages Grim obtained show that the College Dems planned the whole thing deliberately, as one of the group's leaders was hoping to get an internship with Rep. Neal, Morse's opponent.
  15. ↑ Johnson, Jake (August 10, 2023). "Secret Cable Reportedly Shows US Urged Pakistani Government to Oust Imran Khan". Common Dreams . Archived from the original on March 16, 2024. Retrieved July 12, 2024.
  16. ↑ "Scahill and Grim Launch New Media Outlet With The Intercept's Support". The Intercept . July 8, 2024. Archived from the original on July 8, 2024. Retrieved July 12, 2024.
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  18. ↑ Grim, Ryan (June 6, 2019). "'Patience Is Not a Virtue': Ryan Grim on We've Got People and the Modern Democratic Party". Splinter News (Interview). Interviewed by Paul Blest. Retrieved June 13, 2021.
  19. ↑ "We've Got People". Kirkus Reviews. July 8, 2019. Retrieved June 13, 2021.
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