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Ryan Schill

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Ryan Schill’s Biography

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Ryan Schill is an award-winning journalist based in Atlanta, Ga. He is the Editor of the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange and Managing Editor for Digital News Operations at the Center for Sustainable Journalism, where he writes and edits investigative and analytical feature news stories about the juvenile justice system, child welfare and youth issues. He is also part-time faculty in the journalism program at Kennesaw State University in Georgia.

In 2012, Ryan wrote a comics journalism pi…

Ryan Schill’s Journalist Portfolio

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Fractured Leg, Fractured Family: A Misdiagnosis Leads to Allegations of Child Abuse | JJIE.org

Fractured Leg, Fractured Family: A Misdiagnosis Leads to Allegations of Child Abuse | JJIE.org

When Anthony Richards, Jr., was born on an early Sunday morning in June, the only complications involved his …

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Jessica Colotl: In the Eye of the Storm

Jessica Colotl: In the Eye of the Storm

A groundbreaking piece of comics journalism exploring what it means to be American through the story of one u…

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Can nonprofit newsrooms afford a social media editor?

Can nonprofit newsrooms afford a social media editor?

The social media editor's role in the newsroom is still quite new, and ever-evolving as social media continue…

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Beyond Scared Straight: Experts Alarmed by New Show and Impact on Kids | JJIE.org

Beyond Scared Straight: Experts Alarmed by New Show and Impact on Kids | JJIE.org

A new television show highlights intervention programs for at-risk kids, but experts -- and 30 years of resea…

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When Kids Commit Crimes

When Kids Commit Crimes

In March 1989, on a cold, snowy day in the Pocono Mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania, nine-year-old Camer…

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Slaves to the Needle: Heroin Stories

Slaves to the Needle: Heroin Stories

Heroin may be about to get a mean on. That's what JJIE's Ryan Schill writes in a three-part series this week.…

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Articles

Disparity in Treatment of Girls, Boys by Maryland Department of Juvenile Services

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By Ryan Schill
| reclaimingfutures.org
About 80 percent of girls accused of misdemeanors in Maryland were committed to residential treatment centers compared to 50 percent of boys, according to statistics from Maryland’s Department of Juvenile Services (DJS). The statistics, part of the Female Offenders Report, show more than two-thirds of girls sent to residential treatment centers were committed for offenses such as fighting and shoplifting or for drug offenses.
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Controlling Parents More Likely to Have Delinquent Children, Study Finds

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By Ryan Schill
| Juvenile Justice Information Exchange
Demanding, highly controlling, authoritarian parents are more likely to have delinquent, disrespectful children than parents who are seen by their children as legitimate authority figures, according to research from the University of New Hampshire (UNH).
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Fractured Leg, Fractured Family

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By Ryan Schill
| Medium
When Anthony Richards, Jr., was born on an early Sunday morning in June, the only complications involved his family getting the cameras in focus to capture his arrival into the world. He was a healthy baby and his parents, Queenyona Boyd and Anthony Richards, Sr., couldn’t have been happier. Yet, only four days later Anthony was put in foster care after doctors discovered an unexplained broken femur, his distraught parents the suspects of child abuse.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Absolutely. I own a few.

How is social media changing news?

Social media has thrown news reporting into warp drive and reporters need to use extra caution in confirming facts.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Ford Prefect and Kent Brockman

Awards

Society of Professional Journalists Green Eyeshade Award

2011 - Non-deadline Writing, Online

Outstanding non-investigative enterprise reporting.

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