Early life
Ryan grew up inCareer
Early work
Ryan started his career in journalism with a local newspaper in north London, ''The Hornsey Journal''. Ryan served as a war correspondent during his early years, reporting from Bosnia, Rwanda anBreaking the Charlie Haughey and Terry Keane affair
In 1999 whilst editing the Culture section and working as a journalist at ''The Sunday Times'', Ryan broke the story of the long-time affair between the former Taoiseach and Terry Keane, a columnist of ''The Keane Edge'' at ''The Sunday Independent''. Keane had left ''The Sunday Independent'' on bad terms and Ryan, who had worked with her at ''The Sunday Independent'', approached her to sell her story to ''The Times''.''The Sunday Supplement''
Ryan briefly hosted a Sunday morning current affairs show on Radio Ireland (later Today FM) entitled ''The Sunday Supplement''. Ryan was succeeded as host by journalist Sam Smyth.Publishing
Ryan co-founded ''VIP (magazine), VIP'' with former business partner Michael O'Doherty. In 2001 Ryan launched ''GI'' magazine, Ireland's first gay lifestyle glossy. The magazine, which struggled to find advertisers and was closed in 2003, was notable for a billboard campaign depicting two footballers wearing opposing GAA colours and French kissing one another. Ryan's publishing company also owned the publishing venture ''Stars on Sunday'' which folded following failure to meet projected circulation figures. He then set up the ''New York Dog'' magazine, which he promoted on ''The Late Late Show (Ireland), The Late Late Show'', and a New York City-based website, blogorrah.com, which was described by the ''Irish Independent'' as "a sort of ''The Phoenix (magazine), Phoenix'' without portfolio". The site was edited by Derek O'Connor (journalist), Derek O'Connor but stopped filing new posts in July 2007.''This is Nightlive''
Ryan returned to Ireland in 2008 to pitch his idea for a new television show to RTÉ. The show, ''This is Nightlive'', launched in January 2009. It was satirical in nature and parodied a typical newsroom fronted by the fictional anchorman Johnny Hansom. Hansom (played by Ryan) and his team who present a Lifestyle News show on which they claim that "they are the news". Ryan modelled his show on ''The Colbert Report'', a show with a cult following on United States, American cable television.''Broadsheet.ie''
In June 2010 Ryan and writer Niall Murphy launched Broadsheet.ie as a "news source for the bewildered," combining news, satire, music, art, and missing dogs/cats/bikes. It was voted Best Web-Only Publication in the Realex Fire Web Awards 2014. Ryan posted under the pseudonym "Bodger" as well as under his real name on the site. In June 2022, Broadsheet announced that it was ending its operations; many commenters on the website attributed its demise to alienating readers through the prominence it gave to Conspiracy theory, conspiracy theories around Covid-19 and Russia's 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, 2022 war against Ukraine.References
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