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Bryn Mooser and David Darg met in Haiti during the weeks after the earthquake of January 2010. Both were in the country doing humanitarian work, Mooser with Artists for Peace and Justice, to build a school, and Darg with Operation Blessing, to build water and sanitation systems. After working alongside each other and becoming friends, Mooser and Darg had the idea to create a baseball league for the young boys of the Tabarre neighborhood of Port-au-Prince.{{cite news|url=http://www.esquire.com/features/americans-2012/bryn-mooser-david-darg-interview-1212-2| title=The Little League at the End of the World |author= |date=November 29, 2012 |work=Esquireaccessdate=January 29, 2015}} {{verify source |date=September 2023 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/785643020 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/785642275 cite #2 - verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. User:GreenC bot/Job 18}}{{cite web|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/25/new-site-ryot-combines-breaking-news-with-activism.html|title = New Site RYOT Combines Breaking News With Activism. By merging activism with breaking news, RYOT aims to spur its readers to take action on some of the world's most pressing issues.|last = Strochlic|first = Nina|date = July 25, 2013|accessdate = May 11, 2015|publisher = The Daily Beast}} {{verify source |date=September 2023 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/785643020 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/785642275 cite #3 - verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. User:GreenC bot/Job 18}}

Soon after, Mooser and Darg returned home to America, brought on Molly DeWolf Swenson as COO, and launched RYOT News as “the first news site linking news to action.”{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}

Founding investors are Canadians Martha Rogers and Gareth Seltzer, and other notable funders include Todd Wagner and Jason Calacanis.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}

Celebrity activists Olivia Wilde, Ian Somerhalder, Ben Stiller and Sophia Bush were early supporters of RYOT. Olivia Wilde and Elon Musk have been Executive Producers on multiple RYOT Films.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}

Founding Directors of the company alongside Mooser and Darg were Stash Slionski and Stacey Leasca while the first reporters included Benjamin Roffee, Vanessa Black, Stefan Todorovic, Tyson Sadler and Christian Stephen.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}

Mooser and Darg documented their work with the young boys in Haiti in their Tribeca award-winning film Baseball in the Time of Cholera, which follows the rise of the Tabarre Tigers and the concurrent outbreak of cholera in Haiti. The film played at film festivals and finished with a Congressional screening in Washington, D.C.{{cite news |date=April 18, 2012 |title=Baseball in the Time of Cholera |work=Huffington Post |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/olivia-wilde/haiti-cholera-documentary_b_1432841.html}} A year later, Mooser and Darg, debuted their third film at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, a documentary short titled The Rider and The Storm, which chronicles a New York surfer who lost everything in the Breezy Point fires during Hurricane Sandy.{{Cite web |title=The Rider and the Storm | 2013 Tribeca Festival |url=http://tribecafilm.com/filmguide/archive/513e62abc07f5d1ef9000043-the-rider-and-the-storm}}{{cite news |last=Bischof |first=Jackie |date=April 18, 2013 |title=At Tribeca, Profiling Life After Sandy |newspaper=Wall Street Journal |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/04/18/at-tribeca-profiling-life-after-sandy/ |accessdate=May 11, 2015}}{{cite news |last=Anderson |first=John |date=February 1, 2013 |title=Documentaries Thrive in Sandy's Ruins |newspaper=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/movies/documentaries-in-the-wake-of-hurricane-sandy.html |accessdate=May 11, 2015}}

Executive-produced by Olivia Wilde and Paul Allen, Body Team 12 profiles a young Liberian health worker who collects the bodies of the dead in Monrovia at the height of the Ebola outbreak in 2014. It debuted on HBO in February 2016.{{Cite web |date=10 November 2015 |title='Body Team 12': HBO Documentary Films Acquires Short Doc |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/body-team-12-hbo-documentary-839029 |access-date=2016-02-18 |website=The Hollywood Reporter}} On Her Shoulders, a documentary about Nadia Murad's fight against ISIS, debuted in competition at Sundance Film Festival in January 2018, where it won a Directing award for a U.S. Documentary.{{Cite news |last=Hipes |first=Dominic Patten, Patrick |date=2018-01-28 |title=Sundance Film Festival: 'The Miseducation Of Cameron Post', 'Kailash' Land Grand Jury Prizes – The Complete Winners List |language=en-US |work=Deadline |url=https://deadline.com/2018/01/sundance-film-festival-awards-live-stream-winners-list-1202268030/ |access-date=2018-01-30}}

The Painter of Jalouzi was the first documentary to be shot entirely on an iPhone 6S Plus.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}

RYOT began producing 360/VR videos for other media organizations, advertisers and nonprofits in 2015. In their first produced 360/VR films for partners such as The New York Times,{{Cite web|url=http://www.vrfocus.com/2016/03/nyt-vr-releases-new-360-film-10-shots-across-the-border/|title=NYT VR Releases New 360 Film 10 Shots Across The Border {{!}} VRFocus|website=VRFocus|access-date=2016-03-16}} {{verify source |date=September 2023 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/785643020 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/785642275 cite #4 - verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. User:GreenC bot/Job 18}} NPR,{{Cite web|url=http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2016/02/25/467952320/wilco-in-360-behind-the-scenes-at-npr-musics-tiny-desk|title=Wilco In 360: Behind The Scenes At NPR Music's Tiny Desk|website=NPR.org|date=25 February 2016 |access-date=2016-03-16 |last1=Boilen |first1=Bob }} {{verify source |date=September 2023 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/785643020 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/785642275 cite #5 - verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. User:GreenC bot/Job 18}} The Associated Press,{{Cite web|url=http://www.fastcompany.com/3053219/fast-feed/virtual-reality-journalism-is-coming-to-the-associated-press|title=Virtual Reality Journalism Is Coming To The Associated Press|website=Fast Company|language=en-US|access-date=2016-03-16}} {{verify source |date=September 2023 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/785643020 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/785642275 cite #6 - verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. User:GreenC bot/Job 18}} Huffington Post{{Cite web|url=http://testkitchen.huffingtonpost.com/thecrossing/|title=Join Susan Sarandon In Greece At The Refugee Crisis Frontlines|website=The Crossing|access-date=2016-03-16}} {{verify source |date=September 2023 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/785643020 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/785642275 cite #7 - verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. User:GreenC bot/Job 18}} and Sierra Club.{{Cite web|url=http://www.fastcocreate.com/3052044/jared-leto-tours-the-arctic-in-a-new-virtual-reality-climate-change-campaign|title=Jared Leto Tours The Arctic In A New Virtual Reality Climate Change Campaign|website=Co.Create|language=en-US|access-date=2016-03-16}} {{verify source |date=September 2023 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/785643020 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/785642275 cite #8 - verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. User:GreenC bot/Job 18}}

RYOT is credited as the first company to capture in 360 video,1. An active war zone (Syria), a disaster zone (Nepal), underwater with wild dolphins (Bahamas), and is the first company to produce VR news and comedy series on a major network (Hulu).{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}

RYOT Studio is Verizon Media's in-house branded content agency.

RYOT Films creates content in traditional & immersive formats across film, TV, digital, and VR, producing content for clients.

RYOT Lab is Verizon Media's technology and innovation hub for emerging technologies, in partnership with Verizon Lab.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}

RYOT Films was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) for Body Team 12 in January 2016. Body Team 12 was also honored at the Tribeca Film Festival,{{Cite web |title=Why You Need To See This Olivia Wilde-Produced Ebola Documentary |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/natalierobehmed/2015/04/22/olivia-wilde-produced-ebola-documentary-debuts-at-tribeca-film-festival/#60678cd85090 |access-date=2016-02-18 |website=Forbes}} the Mountainfilm Festival, the Palm Springs International Film Festival, and the Austin Film Festival for Best Documentary Short.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}

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