producers Rick Young

Rick Young has been working with FRONTLINE since the early '90s, reporting on a wide array of subjects -- from the environment to politics to business -- for more than 20 PBS documentaries. Over the past five years, his work for FRONTLINE has focused primarily on the business and financial beat, an area of interest that has taken him to Stanford University as a Knight Fellow for the 2007-08 academic year.

In 2003, Young joined Hedrick Smith Productions as the producer and director of the Emmy award-winning FRONTLINE investigative report, The Wall Street Fix. Since then, he has collaborated with Hedrick Smith on four additional FRONTLINE films, including: Spying on the Home Front (2007), Can You Afford to Retire? (2006), Is Wal-Mart Good for America? (2004) and Tax Me If You Can (2003).

Young was producer and correspondent of Gunrunners, a documentary about the illegal small arms trade in West Africa that premiered the PBS series FRONTLINE/World in 2002. Prior to that, he worked as a producer on FRONTLINE programs with the Kirk Documentary Group and with the Center for Investigative Reporting.

His work has garnered numerous awards, including two Emmys, three Emmy nominations, three Writer's Guild nominations and the Sigma Delta Chi award. Before turning to television production, Young spent six years as an investigator for the U.S. House of Representatives.

recent films

Spying on the Home Front watch »

Can You Afford to Retire? watch »

Is Wal-Mart Good for America? watch »