Ryan Grim

Ryan Grim

Alum 2006

Ryan Grim is a contributor to TYT and The Intercept’s D.C. bureau chief.

He was previously the Washington bureau chief for HuffPost, where he led a team that was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, winning once. Grim edited and contributed reporting to groundbreaking investigative project on heroin treatment that not only changed federal and state laws, but shifted the culture of the recovery industry. The story, by Jason Cherkis, was a Pulitzer finalist and won a Polk Award.

Grim grew up in rural Maryland. He has been a staff reporter for Politico and the Washington City Paper and is a former contributor to MSNBC. He is author of the books: We’ve Got People and This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America.