Jill Ryan
Field Correspondent/Producer | [email protected]Jill Ryan joined KJZZ in 2020 as a morning reporter, and she is currently a field correspondent and Morning Edition producer. Ryan received her master’s degree in investigative reporting from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Communication.
At ASU, she participated in multiple investigative reporting projects, and her work has been seen in the Houston Chronicle, the Boston Globe, the Arizona Republic and of course KJZZ News. She also wrote for the Knight-Cronkite News Lab, a website that publishes stories about new innovations in television news and the journalists and meteorologists behind those outlets.
During her undergrad, at Stony Brook University in Long Island, New York, she interned for NPR-affiliate WSHU Public Radio and then became a news fellow for her entire senior year. She fell in love with radio, and in her spare time she enjoys listening to podcasts like KJZZ's Sun Up, RadioLab and the Hidden Brain.
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The U.S House Oversight committee passed legislation to exclude non-citizens from the census that happens every 10 years. -
Efforts to end Russia's war in Ukraine have continued this week, but there are no signs of a major breakthrough. -
A Republican state lawmaker is proposing a new refundable tax credit in a bill that he says would help financially support women who choose to give birth. -
The city of Flagstaff is having one of the wettest starts to the water year on record, according to the National Weather service. A water year is a yearlong measurement of surface-water supply. -
A pair of Phoenix Suns minority owners are again suing majority owner Mat Ishbia, this time over alleged misconduct and mismanagement of funds. -
Gov. Katie Hobbs tapped longtime health care leader Debbie Johnston to lead the Department of Health Services on Monday. Johnston is the third person to lead the agency in three years. -
Sen. Mark Kelly is calling out President Donald Trump and other Republicans for not taking the incitement of political violence more seriously. This is after Trump called for the death penalty against Kelly and other Democrats last week. -
The city of South Tucson was poised to cancel a two-year contract with Flock Safety after concerns were brought up earlier this month about the license plate surveillance technology. But the council instead tabled the issue at the Nov. 18 meeting. -
Tesla’s robotaxis rely solely on cameras and artificial intelligence, unlike Waymo’s, which use a combination of cameras, AI, radar and lidar systems. -
In a 5-2 vote, the Fountain Hills Town Council removed the portion of their meetings allocated to the public to talk about non-agenda items, concerns and comments.
