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, occupation = Radio host, journalist , years_active = , spouse = , partner = , children = , parents = , mother = , father = , relatives = John Savage (brother)

Jim Youngs Jim Youngs (born October 13, 1956) is an American actor. Early life Youngs was born in Old Bethpage, New York, the brother of actor John Savage and journalist Robin Young. Career He appeared in such films as '' The Wanderers'', ''Footloose'' ...

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Peabody Award The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards or the Peabodys) program, named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in television, radio, and ...

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Emmy Award (5 times)
Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame (2010) Robin Cardwell Young (née Youngs) is an American television and radio personality. She worked ten years in television, winning the

for her documentary The Los Altos Story. In 2000, she shifted to radio in Boston. Young co-hosts the

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and

WBUR WBUR-FM (90.9 FM) is a public radio station located in Boston, Massachusetts, owned by Boston University. It is the largest of three NPR member stations in Boston, along with WGBH and WUMB-FM and produces several nationally distributed program ...

daily news magazine program '' Here and Now'' along with

Scott Tong Scott Tong is an American journalist and radio host. He is a former correspondent for ''Marketplace'' on APM. He is the co-host of ''Here & Now'' along with Robin Young and Deepa Fernandes. Tong has a BA in government from Georgetown University ...

and

Deepa Fernandes Deepa Fernandes is one of the hosts of NPR's Here and Now. She has formerly hosted the WBAI radio program '' Wakeup Call'' and the nationally syndicated Pacifica radio news show ''Free Speech Radio News'' on the politically independent, anti-war ...

Early life and education

Young was born in

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. She attended

Ithaca, New York Ithaca is a city in the Finger Lakes region of New York, United States. Situated on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake, Ithaca is the seat of Tompkins County and the largest community in the Ithaca metropolitan statistical area. It is named a ...

, graduating in 1972. The College gave her the Outstanding Young Alumni Award in 1982. She has lived and worked in

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and

Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...

. Her three siblings are all actors. Gail Youngs and

are her sister and brother. Her third sibling is veteran film actor John Savage.

Career in broadcasting

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 ''Evening Magazine'' is the name of various news and entertainment-style local television shows in different markets. Concept On August 9, 1976, Westinghouse (Group W) Broadcasting-owned KPIX in San Francisco debuted a locally-produced magazin ...

'' in 1977. 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. She made the documentary The Los Altos Story, promoting HIV/AIDS awareness; she won the Peabody Award in 1990 for this program. 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

and is distributed by NPR. In July 2013, ''Here and Now'' expanded to two hours. The show is produced at WBUR in Boston.

Awards

Young has won the Peabody and

CableACE Award The CableACE Award (earlier known as the ACE Awards; ACE was an acronym for "Award for Cable Excellence") is a defunct award that was given by what was then the National Cable Television Association from 1978 to 1997 to honor excellence in Amer ...

s for documentary film making and five

Emmy Award The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the calendar year, each with the ...

s for excellence in broadcasting. She was inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2010.

References

External links

''Here and Now'' official website
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