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Adjunct Instructor

Ryan Tuck

Ryan Tuck is a media consultant and coach, advising organizations on all aspects of consumer revenue and audience-centric practices, in addition to: product development, user experience, testing and analytics, as well as performance-driven change and strategic planning. He has led programming for and coached in several programs around the globe focused on reader revenue (in North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia-Pacific), sustainability (for BIPOC-focused publishers) and audience development (in North America, Europe and New Zealand). He also has designed and led programming for smaller, startup organizations focused on generating small dollar donor fundraising, and for publishers focused on growing digital advertising and sponsorship revenue. He is an experienced teacher and coach around change management and strategic planning.

He has worked at news media companies of all sizes and types for about two decades in various roles, inside the newsroom as well as in product and user research roles. Recently he served as director of product and audience development at EducationNC, a digital nonprofit. He previously worked with McClatchy’s 30 U.S. newsrooms as a product manager for news strategy. Before that, he was a news director at Bloomberg’s legal news-centric affiliate, overseeing several publications and correspondents around the globe. He also led user experience research at The New York Times, where he helped launch the company’s first-ever reader loyalty research community.

He has a B.A. in journalism and political science (and Spanish) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a master’s certificate in technology and communication also from UNC, and a law degree from the University of Georgia. Ryan believes that life is best lived busily and with empathy and a constant hunger to learn – and grow. Because he believes so deeply in staying busy, he lives in the eastern United States with his five children and a dog.

He teaches undergraduate and master’s level classes around media law and the business of media.

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