Biography

Ryan Teague Beckwit Ryan Teague Beckwith h is the editor of Congress.org, a product of the CQ-Roll Call Group, and an occasional teacher of journalism. Previously, he ran the "Under the Dome" blog at The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. He has worked as a reporter, assistant copy editor and features editor at The Daily World in Aberdeen, Wash., and taught as a visiting instructor at UNC-Chapel Hill, N.C. State University and Grays Harbor College. Along with John C. Hughes, editor of The Daily World, he wrote and edited "On the Harbor: From Black Friday to Nirvana." He has worked as an intern at such publications as Newsday on Long Island; The Daily News in Longview, Wash.; The Stranger and Seattle magazine. He received a bachelor's degree in rhetoric from Willamette University in 1997 and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in 2002. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1974 and grew up in Bellevue, Wash.