Ryan Kost
@ryankost.bsky.social
Reporter @wnyc.org/@gothamist.com. Previously: Columbia Journalism Investigations; @SFChronicle; @Oregonian; @AP. Desert rat. 🏜 www.ryantkost.com
"Gothamist’s reporting on the matter is the first public confirmation of how the disciplinary process ended, and may be the only accounting the public ever gets." Great reporting from @ryankost.bsky.social @wnyc.org gothamist.com/news/a-judge...
A judge said Queens prosecutors hid evidence. A secret committee cleared them anyway.
George Bell served 24 years in prison before one of the city's highest-profile exonerations.
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“I can only imagine how frustrating and money consuming that is for the families of our clients. This is not an economy in which we can be spending $50 willy-nilly, sending stuff to people that is never going to arrive.” — via @ryankost.bsky.social gothamist.com/news/sending...
Sending a holiday package to someone at Rikers? It might never arrive.
Lawyers and social workers say they don't understand why some are rejected, even when they follow the published rules.
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A new federal lawsuit targeting NY rent regulations was written with the U.S. Supreme Court in mind … gothamist.com/news/a-supre...
A Supreme Court fight just might start with a few vacant NYC apartments
Building owners and a libertarian nonprofit are taking aim at rent regulation, with a very specific audience in mind for their latest legal filing.
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New in @gothamist.com by @ryankost.bsky.social: "NYC schools falling short on education for youth in detention, new report finds". @afcnewyork.bsky.social report finds the DOE has failed to report key data on educational services to youth in juvenile detention. gothamist.com/news/nyc-sch...
NYC schools falling short on education for youth in detention, new report finds
The report also finds poor transition support that leaves many youth without a school placement upon reentry
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I wrote about Eliz Digital and NYc’s fave passport portrait artist: gothamist.com/news/why-the...
Why the internet fell for a Chinatown passport photographer
A film shop has become an unlikely destination for perfect portraits — and a reminder of what hasn’t changed.
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Introducing COYOTE Media Collective!! The Bay Area’s first journalist-owned newsroom — modeled after the smart, sassy, fun alt-weeklies of yore — is launching later this summer. Help us get this rad project off the ground! @coyotemedia.org givebutter.com/coyotemedia
Launch Coyote Media Collective
A new alt-weekly-style publication is hitting the Bay Area
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very excited to be a founding worker-owner of COYOTE. Aiming for the things I miss about alt-weeklies (like writing fun shit & doing real investigative work at the same time) w/o the things I don’t miss (vulture publishers who knew nothing about the Bay Area or journalism and seemingly hated women)
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What happens when prosecutors help convict innocent people — and their colleagues are tasked with investigating it? We looked at every exoneration tied to New York’s conviction review units. Here’s what we found. @nysfocus.bsky.social nysfocus.com/2025/04/14/w...
Who Do Prosecutors Blame for Wrongful Convictions? Apparently Not…
Here are the key findings from the second installment of our investigation into New York’s conviction integrity units.
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Bronx DA Darcel Clark told a cautionary tale to justify rolling back New York’s discovery laws. Court records show her story wasn’t true.
Court Records Undercut Bronx DA’s Testimony on Discovery Rollbacks
Hochul's proposed rollbacks are one of the last sticking points in this year’s budget negotiations. One prosecutor’s support rested on a faulty anecdote.
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Discovery reform is holding up New York’s budget. One case Bronx DA Darcel Clark used to argue for rollbacks didn’t happen the way she said it did.
Court Records Undercut Bronx DA’s Testimony on Discovery Rollbacks
Hochul's proposed rollbacks are one of the last sticking points in this year’s budget negotiations. One prosecutor’s support rested on a faulty anecdote.
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Discovery rolllbacks are holding up New York’s budget. One case Bronx DA Darcel Clark used to argue for rollbacks didn’t happen the way she said it did. My latest for @nysfocus.bsky.social: nysfocus.com/2025/04/08/d...
Court Records Undercut Bronx DA’s Testimony on Discovery Rollbacks
Hochul's proposed rollbacks are one of the last sticking points in this year’s budget negotiations. One prosecutor’s support rested on a faulty anecdote.
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After 25 years in prison for a murder she didn't commit, Renay Lynch finally heard the words she'd been waiting for: "You are fully exonerated." But there was a catch: To win the DA's support, she had to abandon her claims of prosecutorial misconduct. 🧵
CIUs Exonerate Innocent New Yorkers but Prosecutors Escape Blame
In New York, half of CIU exonerations involve prosecutorial misconduct, but DAs rarely acknowledge who got it wrong.
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Great reporting by Dan Hinkle and @injusticewatch.org on Cook County's integrity unit. Highlights many of the same issues we identified in our investigation of New York's CIUs for @nysfocus.bsky.social …
Dan Hinkel@danhinkel.bsky.social · last yr.Here's my story on the Cook County conviction integrity unit, a group set up to free the innocent. It led the nation in exonerations under Kim Foxx, but I also found quiet failures to address injustices, conflicts of interest and investigations that cost some prisoners years of their lives.
After 25 years in prison for a murder she didn't commit, Renay Lynch finally heard the words she'd been waiting for: "You are fully exonerated." But there was a catch: To win the DA's support, she had to abandon her claims of prosecutorial misconduct. 🧵
CIUs Exonerate Innocent New Yorkers but Prosecutors Escape Blame
In New York, half of CIU exonerations involve prosecutorial misconduct, but DAs rarely acknowledge who got it wrong.
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Conviction integrity units were designed to correct wrongful convictions. But when prosecutors are the ones at fault, CIUs often stay silent. Our @nysfocus.bsky.social and @columbiajournalism.bsky.social series on conviction integrity units continues with Part 2: nysfocus.com/2025/03/13/c...
CIUs Exonerate Innocent New Yorkers but Prosecutors Escape Blame
In New York, half of CIU exonerations involve prosecutorial misconduct, but DAs rarely acknowledge who got it wrong.
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Our investigation identified dozens of cases in which a wrongful conviction unit denied someone’s application, only for a judge to later exonerate them. Reporters @ryankost.bsky.social and Willow Higgins discussed the story with Radio Catskill. Listen here:
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Check out the first part of our yearlong investigation into New York’s conviction integrity units: “DAs Promised to Help Wrongfully Convicted New Yorkers. In Many Cases, They Made Things Worse.”
Ryan Kost@ryankost.bsky.social · 2y agoFor the past year, Willow Higgins and I have been looking into NY’s conviction integrity units. They promised justice for the wrongfully incarcerated. But our investigation, in collab w/ @nysfocus.bsky.social and @columbiajournalism.bsky.social Investigations, shows they have fallen short. 🧵
For the past year, Willow Higgins and I have been looking into NY’s conviction integrity units. They promised justice for the wrongfully incarcerated. But our investigation, in collab w/ @nysfocus.bsky.social and @columbiajournalism.bsky.social Investigations, shows they have fallen short. 🧵
For the past year, Willow Higgins and I have been looking into NY’s conviction integrity units. They promised justice for the wrongfully incarcerated. But our investigation, in collab w/ @nysfocus.bsky.social and @columbiajournalism.bsky.social Investigations, shows they have fallen short. 🧵
Is there anything more 'personal essay' than learning a random scientific fact and using it as the basis/metaphor for a 2,000+ word piece without actually understanding the random scientific fact at all? 'In Chile, there are vines that ..."
A while back, I started asking experts to help me understand why it was so difficult for ppl in prison and jail to sue for proper medical care. Why, for example, had one state system gotten away with delaying treatment for Hep C? www.themarshallproject.org/2024/12/04/k...
Why Families of People Who Died in Jail Can’t Get Their Day in Court
A tough legal precedent had kept his clients from their day in court, so Greg Belzley decided there was only one thing to do — try to change the law.
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A while back, I started asking experts to help me understand why it was so difficult for ppl in prison and jail to sue for proper medical care. Why, for example, had one state system gotten away with delaying treatment for Hep C? www.themarshallproject.org/2024/12/04/k...
Why Families of People Who Died in Jail Can’t Get Their Day in Court
A tough legal precedent had kept his clients from their day in court, so Greg Belzley decided there was only one thing to do — try to change the law.
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Great read by @ryankost.bsky.social. Ryan reported this for his thesis @columbiajournalism.bsky.social when I was his advisor--now published by @themarshallproject.org. Top notch work! www.themarshallproject.org/2024/12/04/k...
Why Families of People Who Died in Jail Can’t Get Their Day in Court
A tough legal precedent had kept his clients from their day in court, so Greg Belzley decided there was only one thing to do — try to change the law.
themarshallproject.org
