Ryan Jacobs

Ryan Jacobs
Ryan Jacobs, August 2019
Born
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma materNorthwestern University
Occupation(s)Writer, author, magazine editor

Ryan Jacobs (born 1989) is an American writer, and magazine editor.[1][2][3] He is best known for his reporting in The Atlantic,[4] his editing at Pacific Standard,[5] and his critically acclaimed first book, The Truffle Underground.

Early life

Jacobs was born in Los Angeles and graduated from Loyola High School, where he worked as an editor on the student newspaper, The Loyalist. He matriculated to Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, where he studied magazine journalism.[6]

Career

After graduating summa cum laude from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism,[7] Jacobs began his career as a reporter at a small Pulitzer Prize-winning weekly, the Point Reyes Light, in Marin County, California.[8] His stint there led to stops at a number of San Francisco-based publications, including Sierra magazine, the short-lived Bay Citizen, and Mother Jones[9], where he worked closely with fellow Medill alum Clara Jeffrey.[6]

After Mother Jones, he joined The Atlantic's global channel, where he covered international crime and other foreign affairs from Washington, D.C., under Olga Khazan and J.J. Gould. His reporting for The Atlantic was cited and featured by the New York Times,[10] Esquire,[11] Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's 'Q' radio program, and author Naomi Klein. He departed for an editing position at Pacific Standard.

In his first year at Pacific Standard, Jacobs oversaw the Quick Studies section of the magazine's website, which won a Folio magazine Eddie award. After two years as an associate and senior editor overseeing digital expansion, he was appointed deputy editor, second-in-command to editor-in-chief, Nicholas Jackson. Together, they reorganized the editorial team and redesigned the magazine, leading it to a National Magazine Award in 2017.[6] During Jacobs' tenure at Pacific Standard, stories he has edited have won a Mirror Award,[12] helped launch major books,[13][14][15][16] influenced network television, and received mention in the Best American Essays anthology.[17] He continued to work as deputy editor from the magazine's headquarters in Santa Barbara until its closure in 2019.[18]

Book

His first book, The Truffle Underground, edited by Francis Lam and published by the Clarkson Potter imprint of Penguin Random House in June 2019, focuses on crime in the international truffle trade.[19] BuzzFeed listed the book as one of the most anticipated titles of the year.[20] It was named a best book of the summer by Outside magazine[21] and a non-fiction "page-turner" by Fortune magazine.[22]

Jacobs and the book also received coverage and reviews in Publishers Weekly,[23] Kirkus,[24] Booklist,[25] Thrillist,[26] NPR's Marketplace,[27] WNYC's "All of It With Alison Stewart,"[28] the New York Times,[29] the New York Post,[30] Eater,[31] the San Francisco Chronicle,[32] BookPage,[33] Crime Reads,[34] and the Chicago Review of Books,[35] among others.

References

  1. ^ Owens, Simon (May 5, 2016). "Can Pacific Standard thrive in a post-clickbait era? – Thoughts on Journalism". Medium. Retrieved 2016-12-14.
  2. ^ Munroe, Fred. "Pacific Standard". Retrieved 2016-12-14.
  3. ^ "RD Recap: New Hires at Elle.com; Changes at Pacific Standard". www.adweek.com. Retrieved 2016-12-14.
  4. ^ Jacobs, Ryan. "Ryan Jacobs". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2016-12-11.
  5. ^ "Meet the Team". Pacific Standard. July 27, 2016. Retrieved 2016-12-11.
  6. ^ a b c "Inside Pacific Standard - Medill - Northwestern University". www.medill.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
  7. ^ "Inside Pacific Standard - Medill - Northwestern University". www.medill.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  8. ^ "Search". The Point Reyes Light. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
  9. ^ "Where Are They Now? | Mother Jones". www.motherjones.com. Retrieved 2016-12-14.
  10. ^ Marks, Gene (17 January 2014). "Today in Small Business: Target Goes Small". You’re the Boss Blog. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  11. ^ "Long Reads Of The Week". Esquire. 2013-11-02. Retrieved 2018-08-13.
  12. ^ "Newhouse School Announces 2018 Mirror Awards Finalists". SU News. Retrieved 2018-05-15.
  13. ^ Dusenbery, Maya (June 20, 2017). Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick. Place of publication not identified: HarperOne. ISBN 9780062470805.
  14. ^ Dusenbery, Maya (March 23, 2015). "Is Medicine's Gender Bias Killing Young Women?". Pacific Standard. Retrieved 2016-12-14.
  15. ^ "Write Pitches, Get Money (And Bylines and Books and Advice)". Alana Massey. Retrieved 2016-12-14.
  16. ^ Massey, Alana (February 7, 2017). All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers. Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 9781455565887.
  17. ^ "Alexis Coe on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2016-12-14.
  18. ^ "Financial backer of Pacific Standard magazine abruptly pulls the plug".
  19. ^ Jacobs, Ryan (2019-06-04). The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World's Most Expensive Fungus. S.l.: Clarkson Potter. ISBN 9780451495693.
  20. ^ "66 Books Coming In 2019 That You'll Want To Keep On Your Radar". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  21. ^ "We Couldn't Put Down These 5 Summer Reads". Outside Online. 2019-06-27. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  22. ^ "9 Nonfiction Page-Turners You Should Bring to the Beach This Summer". Fortune. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  23. ^ "The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem and Manipulation In the Shadowy Market of the Most Expensive Fungus". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2019-02-14.
  24. ^ The Truffle Underground. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  25. ^ Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World's Most Expensive Fungus, by Ryan Jacobs.
  26. ^ "33 Books We Can't Wait to Read This Summer". Thrillist. 2019-05-15. Retrieved 2019-05-22.
  27. ^ "Death, theft and darkness in the search for rare truffles". Marketplace. 2019-06-28. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  28. ^ "The Trouble with Truffles | All Of It". WNYC. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  29. ^ Sifton, Sam (2019-06-05). "What to Cook Tonight". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  30. ^ Eber, Hailey (2019-06-01). "How an insane demand for truffles is leading to sabotage, fraud and death". New York Post. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  31. ^ Jacobs, Ryan (2019-05-28). "Inside the Exceptionally Shady World of Truffle Fraud". Eater. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  32. ^ Marino, Nick (June 3, 2019). "Review: Poisoned dogs, intrigue and a taste of coveted fungus in 'Truffle Underground'". Datebook. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  33. ^ "The Truffle Underground by Ryan Jacobs". BookPage.com. 13 June 2019. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  34. ^ "June's Best True Crime Books - Bank Robbers, Cyber Criminals, and the Murder of Biggie Smalls". CrimeReads. 2019-06-18. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  35. ^ Editorial Staff (2019-06-03). "The Best New Books of June 2019". Chicago Review of Books. Retrieved 2019-07-02.