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Humboldt Freelance Reporting Humboldt-focused news, photojournalism, interviews and reporting by independent journalist Ryan Hutson in Humboldt County, CA. Articles and photos can be found at KymKemp.com at the Redheaded Blackbelt, at KEET-13 for local PBS, occasionally in the Ferndale Enterprise or other local newspapers, as well as on the radio at KMUD News on SoundCloud. To support with donations: MY PAYPAL LINK - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=JUEK99XPJUW64

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to REDHEADED BLACKBELT'S RYAN HUTSON

"When administrators would not allow access, Hutson gained the trust of nurses and others to get the story about staffing shortages, as well as shortcomings in safety protocols."kymkemp.com/2022/02/24/tip-of-the-hat-to-redheaded-blackbelts-ryan-hutson-and-locos-hank-sims-who-received-awards-for-their-reporting/

Background:

Reporting on issues that spark an interest or a curiosity, Ryan has been a member of the Lost Coast news community for longer than she would prefer to admit. Hutson is a 3rd generation local, hailing from the southern Humboldt area. Only leaving the county to go to Sonoma State and then to UC Santa Cruz to study political sociology, this reporter returned to the lush hills of Humboldt for family and community.

As a freelance reporter, tenacity and integrity in her reporting over the past several years has led Hutson down a path of journalism that reflects community concerns, and local moments in time seldom analyzed publicly.

Currently, Humboldt Freelance Reporting can be seen in various local publications such as the Redheaded Blackbelt, Headline Humboldt at KEET-13 on our local PBS, in the Ferndale Enterprise as well as in the Lost Coast Outpost's ELSEWHRERE section. Hutson covered the removal of the McKinley Statue from the Arcata Plaza, the campaign and passing of the county-wide Sanctuary Measure K (first ever voter referendum bolstering immigrants rights), the Homicide investigation of David Josiah Lawson in Arcata - still unsolved, in addition to coverage of many past elections and campaigns, nurses on strike, missing person cases, local protests and community events.

Starting with high school journalism writing for the Cub Reporter - the only local student-run newspaper in the county distributed bi-monthly with the area's longest running print newspaper, The Times-Standard. Hutson was nominated by the class to be the Editor in Chief of the paper during her Senior Year at South Fork High School, in Miranda. Creator of the satirical piece Stupidity Patrol Reports, a spoofy police-report style regular column which highlighted incidents of "stupidity" or hilarity in the community or on campus with a quick recap in the format of a law enforcement incident report or citation.

Later providing news articles as a contributing writing for Southern Humboldt's Independent in the early 2000's and then after a hiatus into legal work, Hutson returned to the media community when offered a spot producing and recording radio news segments for KMUD News. Bringing northern Humboldt County news topics to the Southern Humboldt radio listeners, Hutson covered politics and social justice issues relentlessly for the Mud for about two years. All that work - from school to Publishing to Radio to Print to TV - has built a solid foundation for the reporting Ryan now brings to the public regularly.

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