These include The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday Review, The Times Magazine, The Telegraph Magazine, The Express, The Mail On Sunday, The Scotsman, The Irish Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe Magazine, The South China Morning Post Magazine, The Australian Magazine, Wired, GQ, Maxim, Walrus Magazine and Geographical, among others.

Such work won me a Special Commendation award from the International Federation of Journalists in 1999. In 2005 I was also longlisted for the Paul Foot Award for Campaigning Journalism, sponsored by Private Eye magazine and The Guardian.

I'm also, at times, an author, book reviewer, commentator, TV producer, business writer, and communications consultant for various non-profit groups, as well as guest lecturer on media issues, hate crimes and extremism.

The citizen media hub, Yoosk, hosts several of my debates with leading figures from the world of religion, politics and other topics.

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Read about the major BBC1 drama England Expects, for which Nick Ryan was creative producer.

'one of those dramas that has "gritty", "brave" and "challenging" stamped all over it' - Radio Times

'belonged in the tradition of urban British TV classics such as Alan Clarke's Made In Britain, Mike Leigh's Meantime, and Phil Davis's ID... this was a raw and polished piece of work - a stylishly shot, meticulous insight into the psyche of [a] right-wing loner' - The Mirror

'All credit to the BBC for commissioning England Expects' - The Observer

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Reportage:

Alien nations
In just over five years' time the London Olympics will officially celebrate the multicultural face of Britain. But in the shadows of the proposed new stadium, two popular movements with radically different views on immigration are rapidly taking hold. Nick Ryan meets the people and the politicians of the BNP and the Respect party, and wonders how long it will be before the area is torn in two

From Bagels to Mosques, This is The Real Brick Lane
With the branding of the novel Brick Lane as "despicable" by Bangladeshis nationwide, author Nick Ryan ventures into the heart of the East End to uncover the true face of 'Banglatown' and its people.

Bad Boyz
A shaven-headed burglar and self-confessed ram raider. An anaemic 14-year-old born to smackheads, praying to a willow called the 'Death Tree'. The gypsy child, destroying a bedroom in front of my eyes, playing out the memory of the beatings and bestiality visited upon him by his father.

British Prisoners of Auschwitz
It was the most infamous of the Nazi death camps, but it also held British PoWs whose incredible acts of bravery and sabotage hampered the German war effort and helped Jewish inmates.

Children of the Abyss
++Longlisted for the Paul Foot Award++
The old East End of London is disappearing, its gangsters and villains consigned to memory. But has the world that spawned the Kray twins changed so much? Nick Ryan ventures into the bandlands of Banglatown.

Convoy of Hope
Frosty air and dark ice surround a shell-pocked school. The children sometimes dig bullets from the flaking plaster of the walls. Glazed Christmas trees dot the hillsides nearby – Nick Ryan voyages into the heart of the former Yugoslavia.

Dangerous Days
The young woman pulls slowly on a cheap cigarette, obscuring her narrow, determined features in a dense cloud of smoke. Her slim, nail-bitten fingers tap absentmindedly on the tape recorder, ignoring the roar of the troop helicopters passing overhead. Kurdistan offers a hard choice between life and death.

The Disappeared
Abdurressak Ipek has lived a long life. A tall, weather-beaten shepherd with a hook nose and tobacco-stained beard, he doesn't even know his exact age – somewhere around 70 or 75 – and unlike most modern Kurds, he doesn't speak Turkish or the main Kurdish dialect. Yet he remembers the day that the army entered his village, Tirali in the Lice region, on 18 May 1994.

Extreme Measures
Many thought the Ku Klux Klan consigned to memory. But is it on the rise once more?

For King and Country
With each passing year fewer are left to remember. Those that remain clutch service papers and black and white photos that show the brave young men they once were.

A Forgotten War
The Saharawis of North Africa are caught in a desert war with Morocco. While their guerillas face Moroccan troops across a spectacularly fortified great wall, Saharawi women are running hospitals, schools and desert market gardens. Nick Ryan reports from a settlement in the Liberated Zone in the Western Sahara.

Identity Crisis
The death of a prominent Christian Identity campaigner brings home memories of his bizarre encounters with Identity's twisted fundamentalists, recalls Nick Ryan.

In the Frontline
As aid agencies work frantically to repatriate 460,000 refugees from Albania alone, Nick Ryan reflects on the June day he spent on the Kosovan border as the refugees flooded out of their homeland. He discovered a scene that was as emotional as it was lawless.

Masters of Kung Fu
The old, tanned face is inscrutable, as the tall, stooped figure steps from between the ranks of waiting students. He sucks in the cold mountain air and calmly adjusts the silk shirt, stitched for him by his wife and which clashes incongruously with his old pair of trainers. Oblivious to both this and the crowd, he calmly stubs out a cigarette and launches himself into the Calling Crane.

Memoirs of a Streetfighting Man
++IFJ Special Commendation Award++
The gear is casual, but the faces are hard, sullen, full of mistrust. Angry-looking tattoos poke out from under smart shirt sleeves. Mobile phones lie in a neat row, next to bottles of Bud and pints of Guinness. The talk, in a melting pot of accents from across London’s council estates, is of football ‘firms’, lads and ‘jobs’ [robberies]. Nick Ryan delves deep into the world of Combat 18, in this award-winning reportage.

New World War
Out of a small office in Dublin, a team of 18 investigators, lawyers and accountants attempts to stem the rising tide of global fraud.

Queens of the Cosmic Timewarp
There is a room, reached at the top of a winding set of stairs, at the back of the King's Arms in Soho...The unlikely story of the gay Dr Who fans.

Television Nation
Police raids and punishment beatings can't stop MED-TV providing Kurdistan with a satellite channel to call its own.

Truth Under Siege
For journalists in war-torn Algeria, assassination isn't just another story – it's a job hazard. A rare look inside an independent press struggling under a death sentence.

Wave of Terror
They use speed boats, automatic weapons and satellite technology to create a wave of terror on the high seas. The pirates of the Nineties are far deadlier than the heroes of the past. Discover the modern day pirates who rule the high seas.

The Wild West
What lies behind London's theatreland? Behind the tacky neon strip joints and uber-cool bars of Soho? Or the swanky hotels and penthouses lining Park Lane and Mayfair? Is Fitzrovia the new NoHo and who was the King of Quacks who once worked in Marylebone's Harley Street?

The Wrong Side of the Tracks
A biting wind scours the raked fields of Flanders. The landscape, once scene of bitter trench warfare, is wide and flat. On the horizon the spires and domes of an ancient metropolis pull near – and a very different battle raging in the heart of the European Union.

Zealots
The siege of Waco; nerve gas attacks on the Tokyo subway; mass suicide as a comet passes in the night sky – think of the word “cult” and these images could well spring to mind.

Interviews:

The Devil Drives
"In the early 1970s, I was steeped in the world of North American finance,"says the precise, clipped voice. "Then I read a book, called The Devil Drives, by Fawn Brody. And it changed my life."

Blowing the SAS's Cover Up
They were the lucky ones. The five survivors of an SAS patrol-gone-wrong became living legends, their tale of daring do and heroism etched forever in military and public myth. But as one soldier fights to get his story published, were we told the whole truth? Mike Coburn tells Nick Ryan why the British government wants to keep him quiet.

Fierce Commedy with Mark Thomas
We met on the streets of Whitehall, central London, during the now infamous riots against capitalism earlier this year. Short and stocky, he sat on a bicycle, chatting nonchalantly to two anarchists as the police lines bore down upon us. With characteristic composure, he featured a quick glance behind him, then cycled off at a leisurely pace.

Global Village Rebel
Author Hari Kunzru stunned the literary world with his debut novel, The Impressionist. Not to mention his £1.25m deal. Can he sustain the hype the second time around?

Gorgeous or Grotesque?
Controversial politician George Galloway has garnered respect and loathing in equal measure for his outspoken stance on the war in Iraq and scathing criticism of Tony Blair. He tells Nick Ryan about his far-from private life.

Heroine of Empire
From a tiny office, packed at the top of a cramped building off London's Portobello Road, the story of one of our greatest female explorers is being prepared.

The Irish Matchmaker
For 27 years Daly has been matching couples. Twenty seven years on a 63 acre farm, living with his wife, seven children and 30 head of cattle, surrounded on all sides by the bachelor farmers of County Clare.

King Arthur
A terraced house on a large estate, south east England, February: Green, spreading ink encircles the powerful forearm. Coarse black hairs poke through the tightly patterned lace of tattoos, a sleeve of foreign lands, former girlfriends, Mum, Dad and Hells Angels.

The Running Man
"Imagine you are lost in the forest. Walking, trying to find your way home and you're shouting, calling, for someone to hear you." The figure before me sucks in deeply from a cigarette, his nicotine-stained fingers toying with a small wooden image of a man, hanging from his neck.

A White Man's Obsession
As a child, he had read the stories of a lost expedition and the "jungle hell" which had swallowed up the white man. Even decades after it had happened, the newspapers were full of sightings and testimonies, of how the explorer had followed his 'crazy' dream of a hidden Atlantis into the heart of the Amazon – and simply disappeared.

To Whom It May Concern
The 25th anniversary of the Vietnam war passed earlier this year, yet few in Britain know that young British men also fought in the conflict. They still suffer with their memories today.

Books (read more at The Express):

East End Chronicles by Ed Glinert
Read about the mysteries and mayhem of the real East Enders.

Unveiled
A review of two new books on modern Islam, including Irshad Manji's controversial The Trouble With Islam.

Opinions:

Bali Carnage
I know the tiny Indonesian island of Bali well. Or at least, I once did. It provided me with a haven, somewhere to recharge body and spirit, after I left the Middle East.

Fear and Loathing
Returning to a subject he last visited for The Guardian five years ago, author Nick Ryan reveals that extremism is continuing to thrive online.

Heart of Darkness?
It is not just militant Islamists that seek to profit from the current Middle East crisis. Far-right Holocaust “revisionists” are attempting to capitalise on it too.

National Affront
As the BBC unveils the first major drama to tackle the far right in over 20 years, the show's creative producer recalls some of his encounters among extremists.

Peace Fire
I came to this project in a strange kind of way: in 1990 I was a backpacker. That odd breed of traveller, often young, that likes to consider itself different or aloof to regular tourists.

The Rise of Europe's Right
We urgently need to address the rise of the extreme Right across western Europe, argues writer Nick Ryan, whose recent book Homeland is an investigation of white nationalism.

Web Specials:

Sexual Abuse
There are more people involved in a sexual abuse case than simply the victim ('survivor') and the paedophile. In this moving series of articles, the voices of every person involved in a sexual abuse case are heard – from the survivor, to the investigating officers and legal experts.

NGO Consultant:

I've been a consultant for numerous non-profits and NGOs, such as the International Committee of the Red Cross, the British Red Cross, Cafod, Christian Aid, Ockenden International, Children on the Edge, The Institute of War & Peace Reporting, the Serious Road Trip and the Royal Geographical Society. Read here examples of that work.

Sudan: A Life
In this exclusive interview, Ockenden's Sudan representative Ali Adam spoke with Nick Ryan about his views on the unfolding situation in the country.

Business & Contract Journalism:

As an experienced business writer, editor and copywriter, I have edited supplements, internal & external newsletters, websites, written for blue chip companies, produced scores of trade magazine articles, advertorials, annual reviews and contributed to many contract publication titles.

Clients have included Corporate Financier, Control Risks Group, Microsoft UK, the Xfi Center, Orange, BT, Company & Shareholder, Leisure Media, The Evening Standard, Co-operative Bank, Barclays Private Banking, and Management Today, as well as trade magazines such as Caterer & Hotelkeeper, Supermarketing, Computer Weekly, Computing, Motor Transport, and Commercial Motor.

• Click here for a cover feature on the German economy
• Click here to read about growing excitment - and nervousness - on Chinese mergers & acquisitions
• Click here for a piece on supply chain management
• And click here for an interview with the architects of the London Eye.

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