In 2015, Ryan was named publisher and chief executive officer of the Los Angeles Times and The San Diego Union-Tribune.
[1] Prior to his position with The Los Angeles Times, beginning in 2007, he served as publisher and chief executive officer of The Baltimore Sun.
[4] Ryan began his career at the Chicago Tribune and was later vice president of circulation at The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1993 to 2000.
"[6] In 2010, he was named publisher and chief executive officer of The Morning Call Media Group (MCMG)[7] in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania.
In 2016, he was promoted to president of publishing, where he was responsible for all Tribune Publishing's newspapers and related websites including the Los Angeles Times, The San Diego Union-Tribune, The Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, The Morning Call, and the Orlando Sentinel.