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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Longtime WABC anchor Bill Ritter has been a mainstay of New York's news scene for decades. So, it came as a shock when he announced he would step away from the anchor desk last month because of a diagnosis of Alzheimer's. -
In 1976, a white man attacked a young Black lawyer with an American flag in downtown Boston. -
Ethel Payne is known as the "First Lady of the Black Press" for her trailblazing work as a foreign and domestic correspondent. -
"Whistler" is Ann Patchett's 11th novel. -
Some were four times the size of today's great whites. -
José Andrés founded the food aid organization World Central Kitchen with his wife after responding to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. -
Bill Pulte does not have a national security background and has used his current position to go after perceived enemies of President Trump. -
Infertility can take a profound toll on relationships, identity and overall well-being, often in ways that go unspoken. -
Heather Simpson was convinced that if she vaccinated her child, the little girl would die. She also remembers pro-vaccine parents attacking her on social media, calling her a 'baby killer' and repeating over and over that vaccines were safe and effective without addressing any of her fears. -
Barry Nolan has been a broadcaster since the 1970s. Recently, he was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, an interstitial lung disease with a median survival time of two to five years after symptoms arrive.
