Anne Ryman is an award-winning journalist and Arizona resident since 1991
Anne joined ABC15 in January 2023 as an investigative reporter as part of the Scripps Journalism Journey Initiative.
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Her 2021 investigation “Licensed to Abuse,” about massage therapists who abuse their clients, led to sweeping regulatory changes, including the replacement of the entire state massage therapy board and a new law that requires more stringent background checks for massage therapists.
Anne's 2019 investigation into an obscure Arizona law that allowed funeral directors to take over the estates of dead people and charge their estates exorbitant burial fees led to a new law in 2020 outlawing the practice.
She was part of a 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning team in explanatory reporting for "The Wall: Unknown stories, Unintended consequences" about the planned 2,000-mile wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
She was also part of the newspaper's team that won a 2018 George Polk Award for revealing how Arizona allows charter-school operators to make huge profits off public education dollars.
Her reporting led to the recovery of a Willem de Kooning painting worth $100 million stolen from the University of Arizona 30 years earlier. She followed that story for five years from the recovery through the restoration to the painting’s return to the museum.
Anne lives in Phoenix with her husband and teenage daughter and two unruly dogs.
