Ryan Zunner
Assistant Managing EditorRyan is the assistant managing editor of BTPM News. He first joined the organization in the summer of 2018 as an intern, rising through the ranks to weekend host and junior reporter before leaving in 2021.
He then had stints in public service, Top 40 radio, and TV news production. It was there he was nominated for a New York State Emmy Award for coverage of the May 14 Mass Shooting in Buffalo.
Hailing from Kenmore, N.Y. and a graduate of Hilbert College, he re-joined BTPM News in August of 2024. Ryan is an enrolled Oneida citizen of Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve.
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Arts & CultureGary Farmer is Cayuga and hails from the Six Nations of the Grand River territory in Southern Ontario. Spending much of his youth on the West Side of Buffalo, Farmer is grateful for the recognition from BIFF. -
Arts & CultureSix-time Grammy Award winning producer Don Was has been the man behind the board for records from everyone from The Rolling Stones to John Mayer. Now he's continuing to connect with his Detroit roots and bring the sounds of the Motor City to audiences around the country. -
The lawsuit — separate from Wednesday's lawsuit filed against those actively developing the land — challenges a 2023 U.S. Department of Interior decision, which placed the parcel into restricted-fee status. -
Following AMC's abrupt exit from the downtown theater last December, Scene One has been hard at work reactivating amenities and rethinking programming since moving in during April. -
Buffalo Mayor Sean Ryan said Tuesday that the City of Buffalo has shut down The Cowboy, a Western-themed bar on Chippewa, after its owner was arrested Monday for allegedly stabbing a West Seneca man — as well as himself. -
Seneca Nation President JC Seneca is set to host a fundraiser for governor hopeful Bruce Blakeman. But the event at the nation's Niagara Falls casino alongside Republican legislators is drawing pushback from a group of Seneca citizens. -
In the midst of a dispute over a Seneca gas station project in Buffalo's Old First Ward, the nation's president said an "agreement in principle" had been reached to replace the 2002 gaming compact. -
The Seneca Nation says land sovereignty is at the center of its dispute with Buffalo over plans to build a gas station on Miami and Ohio streets. -
Buffalo Mayor Sean Ryan framed the city's objections over the status and jurisdiction of Seneca-owned land in the Old First Ward as an open legal question or dispute, but the city's own property tax records reveal it's coded as an "Indian Res." -
For Andrea Grant, telling the story of Native residential schools isn't about making another documentary. Grant is a Coast Salish poet and filmmaker, whose film and spoken-word project, "The Bones of Our Never-cestors," explores that history through a different kind of storytelling.
