Ryan Young (Journalist)
Ryan Young (Journalist)
Reporting for CNN
Ryan Young is an Emmy award winning journalist based in Chicago, Illinois. He is a national correspondent at CNN. [1]
Education
Young graduated from Florida State University with a Bachelor's degree in media production.
Career
After graduating from FSU, Young joined WTXL from 1997-2001 in Tallahassee, Florida, where he kept local viewers in touch with a wide variety of big stories, including the 2002 Florida elections and Florida State's National Championship run.
He then joined WTOC-TV as a reporter from 2001-2003. Ryan provided viewers with crucial, up-to-the-minute late-night reports, earning two Associated Press awards, one for best investigative piece that exposed dangerous cigarette lighters and the other for best spot news coverage of a major street collapse.
From July 2005 to January 2015, he was a reporter for WNCN. He went on to tell the stories of people whose lives were torn apart by hurricanes Ivan and Frances. While covering the problem of gangs in the state, Ryan produced a groundbreaking report on gangs in the military, a story that earned him national recognition.