Reporters
Lou Young
A native New Yorker, Lou Young joined CBS 2 in June 1994. He has served as a broadcast journalist in the New York market since 1981.
A multiple Emmy Award-winner, Young most recently received an Emmy in the On-Camera Achievement (News): Live Field Reporting Category. Young has also been honored with awards from the Associated Press, United Press International, Radio and Television News Directors Association, and New York Academy of Television Arts Awards. Young is also co-author of the book "The Art of Justice," about high profile trials illustrated by courtroom artist Marilyn Church.
At WCBS-TV, he reported from Ground Zero following the 9/11 attacks, traveled to Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates and Kuwait to gauge Arab world reaction, spent months in Israel and the occupied territories reporting on the Arab-Israeli conflict. He also served as CBS 2's primary war reporter during the invasion of Iraq reporting from Kuwait, the Persian Gulf and southern Iraq.
Prior to 9/11 Young covered the controversial 2000 presidential election, the inauguration of George W. Bush, the impeachment trial of President Clinton, the recovery efforts of Swissair Flight 111, school shootings in both Littleton, Colorado, and Conyers Georgia, the crash of TWA Flight 800.
His special reports have ranged from a month-long examination of gun violence in the Tri-State area to a detailed look at capital punishment, which included touring a New Jersey death chamber in Trenton and witnessing an execution in Huntsville, Texas.
Young's exclusive interviews over the years have included an on-camera confession from now-convicted serial killer Nathaniel White in Orange County, N.Y., and a detailed account of former U-Boat Captain Reinhart Hardegen's assaults on U.S. shipping off the Long Island coast in the opening days of World War II. The Hardegen interview was conducted at the former captain's home in Bremen, Germany on the 50th anniversary of the assaults.
Earlier in his career, Young worked at both WABC-TV (1981-1990) and WNBC-TV (1990-1994). Prior to that he worked at WTVT-TV Tampa (1980-1981), as an assignment editor and senior producer at the New Jersey Nightly News (1979-1980), a reporter and assignment editor for WFLA-TV Tampa (1978-1979) and reporter and assignment editor at WCJB-TV in Gainesville, FL (1974-1978).
Young has a B.S. in Broadcasting from the University of Florida (Class of 1974). He currently resides with his wife and two children in Westchester County, NY.