Robin Young | |
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| Born | Robin Cardwell Youngs Long Island, New York |
| Nationality | American |
Robin Cardwell Young (née Youngs) is an American television and radio personality.[1] Young currently co-hosts NPR and WBUR daily news magazine program Here and Now along with Tonya Mosley.[2] Young was born in Long Island, New York, attended Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York,[3] and has lived and worked in Manhattan, Washington, DC, Los Angeles and Boston. She is the sister of veteran film actor John Savage.[4]
She began in television as a secretary at Channel 38 in Boston in 1973. In 1975, she went on air as a radio announcer at WBZ (Boston). She made her first television appearance on WBZ-TV's Evening Magazine in 1977.[5] From 1982 to 1983, Young was lead presenter, along with Tom Ellis, for the revamped evening newscasts on WNEV-TV (now WHDH) Channel 7. After one year, she switched her role at the station and began hosting and producing a number of primetime specials under her own production company, Young Visions. In 1988, Young was "Life" section anchor of USA Today: The Television Show, a nationally syndicated news program.[6]
Young has hosted Here and Now since 2000. The show normally consists of five interview segments with reporters, politicians, artists, authors and experts on a given subject. It is broadcast from noon to 2 pm on WBUR and is distributed by NPR. In July 2013, Here and Now expanded to two hours. The show is produced at WBUR in Boston.
Young has won the Peabody and CableACE Awards[7] for documentary film making and five Emmy Awards for excellence in broadcasting. She was inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2010.[1][8]
References
- ^ a b "Robin Young". www.wbur.org. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
- ^ "WBUR & NPR Name Tonya Mosley As Third Co-host Of Here & Now". NPR.org. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
- ^ "Full List of Winners". www.alumni.ithaca.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
- ^ "The Tribe From 'Hair' Reunites After 40 Years". www.wbur.org. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
- ^ "The battle of the nightly news anchors: 'star wars' comes to local TV". Christian Science Monitor. 1982-11-24. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
- ^ Images, Historic. "1988 Press Photo Bill Macatee and Robin Young anchors on USA Today - cvp11595". Historic Images. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
- ^ "Robin Young". www.wbur.org. Retrieved Jan 26, 2021.
- ^ "Robin Young – Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame". Retrieved 2020-08-09.
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