Ryan Schreiber founded the online music magazine, Pitchfork, serving alternately as its Editor-in-Chief and CEO from 1996 to 2019. Under his leadership, Pitchfork became the most trusted voice in music journalism, setting a gold standard for the form, and launching the careers of innumerable artists and writers.

In 2005, he created the annual Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago (later expanding to Paris, London, Berlin, and Mexico City), and fostered collaborations with MoMA/PS1, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Arts, and the Art Institute of Chicago. He led Pitchfork through its acquisition by Condé Nast in 2015.

Today, he heads the boutique artist management agency, xtra/credit mgmt, representing Jagjaguwar psych-folk artist Anastasia Coope and Los Angeles DJ/producer Allie Teilz, as well as producing the weekly new music playlist, What’s Good. He is authoring a memoir on the rise of Pitchfork and independent music, titled Weird Era, to be published by MCD x FSG.

Schreiber has twice been featured in TIME Magazine's annual TIME 100 poll of the world's most influential people and holds an honorary arts doctorate from Columbia College Chicago. He is also a member of the Artist Advisory Council at New York arts organization The Kitchen.