Ryan Y. Kellett was most recently vice president of audience at Axios Media since 2021.
Previously, he spent 11 years at The Washington Post, where he guided the organization through the rise of mobile/social internet publishing, quadrupling readership globally and massively expanding subscriptions. He has covered three presidential elections, including leading the Post’s digital efforts in 2012, and contributed to high-profile projects such as the police shootings database and opioid files.
He additionally was an author of the proposal on comments and communities that became The Coral Project. Kellett and his teams have won multiple Edward R. Murrow, WAN-IFRA, and Webby awards. He got his start at NPR where he was selected as the first-ever social media intern. He is an active board member of the Online Journalism Association. He is studying the economic and cultural incentives of social media platforms and the role online creators play in disseminating fact-based journalism.
Ryan joins the community as a 2024-2025 Nieman-Berkman Fellow in Journalism Innovation.