Ryan E. Little

Ryan Little is an award-winning data journalist at The Baltimore Banner, where he uses computational tools to tell powerful stories about the people and experiences found in large data sets.

Most recently, he was the Roy W. Howard Investigative Fellow at Mother Jones. He has also worked at the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism, the Capital News Service and The Ledger in Lakeland, Fla. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press and elsewhere.

Little has a master’s degree from the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. There, he focused his studies on computational and data journalism.

Death of a Musician

This is a two-day, narrative non-fiction story about the unsolved murder of a musician shot when a bystander intervened in an attempted robbery credited by some for leading to an arrest and conviction. Awarded First Place, Feature & Arts Writing, Division C, from the Florida Society of News Editors.

This is the online component of the print package.

Follow-Up Stories

The local bar Ameduri was playing at struggled to recover from his death's impact. Police arrest a man who was 17-years-old on the day of the killing. He's being charged as an adult.