Robin Young
Robin Young brings more than 25 years of broadcast experience to her role as host of Here & Now. She is a Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker who has also reported for NBC, CBS and ABC television and for several years was substitute host and correspondent for "The Today Show."
Robin has received several Emmy Awards for her television work, as well as cable's Ace award, the Religious Public Relations Council's Wilbur Award and the National Conference of Christians and Jews Gold Award. She has also received radio's regional Edward R. Murrow award.
As an independent documentary filmmaker, she produced and directed the opening film for Marion Wright Edelman's White House Conference on Children and followed the rise of then unknown filmmaker John Singleton in the film "Straight From the Hood."
Her documentary "The Los Altos Story," made in association with the Rotary Club of Los Altos, California, won the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award and is now the backbone of a worldwide HIV/AIDS awareness initiative.
She has had an eclectic career in broadcasting, serving as second director on Boston Bruins and Red Sox telecasts, was one of the first hosts on the groundbreaking television show "Evening Magazine," and she's pretty sure she's the only Peabody Award-winner who has also hosted a cooking game show! (Yes, that was Robin on the Food Channel's "Ready Set Cook!" When they cast their vegetables and vote? That was Robin's idea!)
Robin was born on New York’s Long Island, attended Ithaca College in upstate New York and has lived and worked in Manhattan, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, but Boston is her hub.
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The book comes out April 21. -
Carl Castro, a retired U.S. Army colonel, talks about the impact of the Iran war on service members, their families and veterans. -
Alpha-gal syndrome used to be most prevalent in Arkansas, Kentucky and Virginia, but is now being seen in many regions, with some hotspots in the Northeast. -
John Sayles launched an independent film movement with his film "Return of the Secaucus 7." His new novel tells of Henry Ford's social engineering of both his workers and Detroit. -
Her ALS Story is a support and advocacy group whose participants include more than 150 women. -
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen called the California verdict against Meta "huge." -
"The Wiz" transformed "The Wizard of Oz" into an all-Black production. The costumes are among the many items held by the Smithsonian Institution that tell the story of the country. -
Petraeus talks about the military operation so far and how he believes it's different than what he oversaw in Iraq. -
Last year, former Iranian news editor and Tehran resident Ali Safari told us bombings by the U.S. made Iranians more patriotic and in favor of the government. -
During the American Civil War, tens of thousands of soldiers used a simple envelope to cast their ballot from the battlefield.
