Based in Austin, the Tribune is a nonpartisan, nonprofit media organization that promotes civic engagement and discourse on public policy, politics and government. Ryan maintains and develops the interactives found in the Tribune’s growing collection of data applications, conducts data analysis and currently is the primary updater of the government employee salary database. He first joined the Tribune as an intern during the summer of 2010, and was hired full-time July 2011. He graduated in 2010 with a degree in multimedia journalism from the University of Texas at Austin, where he served as the web editor for the student newspaper, The Daily Texan.