Rick Young is an investigative producer, writer and director working with FRONTLINE since the early 90’s.  His work on more than 30 PBS documentaries has probed the changing landscape of American capitalism (Is Walmart Good for America?, Flying Cheap, Trump’s Trade War); the impact of money in politics (Big Sky, Big Money); and the deepening crises in affordable housing, healthcare and the environment (Poverty, Politics and Profit, Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria, The Healthcare Divide, Blackout in Puerto Rico, Plastic Wars).

In 2002, he 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 2009, he launched a partnership between FRONTLINE and the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University and, from 2016, led a five-year collaboration between FRONTLINE and NPR.

His work has won numerous awards, including 3 Emmys, 3 Writers Guild Awards, the Morton Frank Overseas Press Club Award and the Gerald Loeb Award for business reporting.   He was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford in 2007-08.  Before turning to journalism, Young spent six years as an investigator for the U.S. House of Representatives.