Rhoda Young is an American independent news journalist who first when viral after she solved the cause of a house fire in her reporting through the use of Facebook live in 2017. ^{[22] [3] [19]}

Young has lived in the city of Norfolk, Virginia for most of her life. She is married to Steven Young, a person whom she collaborates with on many of her personal projects. ^[22]

She works in the transportation industry and aspires to become a professional reporter.

For the past few years, Rhoda has been preparing herself as an investigative journalist by occasionally being present at areas in her neighborhood where a crime or a fire is taking place in real time.

Throughout 2017, Young started taking her passion to be an investigative journalist more seriously.

She began actively seeking areas to report through the use of Facebook Live.

Often, the team is composed of herself and husband, who dives into the role of cameraman.

Their way of covering exclusive news in the city of Norfolk is usually by stumbling on them.

Young is a lively and amicable personality as a reporter, giving plenty of energy as an event takes place.

She is undaunted by any restriction of vocabulary and is not afraid to use expletives as emphasis in her reporting.

As she says herself in an interview:

On November 27th, 2017, as Young and her husband, Steven Young, were on their way to the bank, the couple witnessed smoke coming out of a house in the distance.

The two decided to make news coverage of it through social media.

They were the first ones on the scene of a house fire.

The Facebook live broadcast of the Youngs covering the fire lasted close to an hour.

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She began the broadcast of the 500 block of Birmingham Ave. fire with:

Since her broadcast, the video has gone viral with thousands of people praising her efforts.

During the fire, she was able to solve a crime when she caught the arson who set the fire.

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Her reporting is as follows:

The owner of the house whom Young interacted with and started drinking PBR was later arrested due to her investigation in the fire.

Donald William Stricker III was charged with burning an occupied dwelling.

In September 2019, Rhoda Young uploaded a video on Twitter which quickly went viral receiving more than 1.8 million views.

The video depicts her complaining to the manager of a Domino's Pizza over an employee preparing her order of chicken wings in a dirty sink. ^{[27] [26]}

The video was later shared on WorldStarHipHop where it has received over 201,000 views. ^[28]