Gordon Young (journalist)
{{Short description|American journalist and educator}}
Gordon Young is an American journalist and educator based in San Francisco, California, who writes about urban planning issues and the problems facing deindustrialized cities and towns, especially his hometown of Flint, Michigan. He is a senior lecturer in the Communication Department at Santa Clara University{{cite web |last1 = Young |first1 = Gordon |title = Senior Lecturer |url = https://www.scu.edu/cas/communication/faculty-and-staff/gordon-young/ |publisher = Santa Clara University Communication Department |access-date = January 12, 2023 }} and has lived in San Francisco since 1996.
His book Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City{{cite book |last1 = Young |first1 = Gordon |title = Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City |date = 2013 |publisher = University of California Press |location = Berkeley |isbn = 0520270525 |pages = 288 |edition = Hardback |url = https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520377547/teardown }} was named a Michigan Notable Book{{cite web |title = Michigan Notable Books |url = https://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan/public/mnb/previous-notables/2014-michigan-notable-books |publisher = Library of Michigan |access-date = January 12, 2023 |location = Lansing }} and a finalist for the 33rd Annual Northern California Book Award for Creative NonFiction.{{cite web |title = 33rd Annual Northern California Book Awards |url = https://poetryflash.org/programs/?p=ncba_2014 |website = Poetry Flash |access-date = January 12, 2023 }} Michael Moore praised Teardown as "a brilliant chronicle of the Mad Maxization of a once-great American city."{{cite web |title=UM-Flint to Host Author of "Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City" |url=https://news.umflint.edu/2013/08/20/um-flint-to-host-author-of-teardown-memoir-of-a-vanishing-city/ |website=UM-Flint News |access-date=January 14, 2023}}
Young's journalism work has appeared in The New York Times,{{cite news |last1 = Young |first1 = Gordon |title = International Students Find the American Dream ... in Flint |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/education/edlife/international-students-find-the-american-dream-in-flint.html?_r=0 |newspaper = The New York Times |access-date = January 12, 2023 }} Politico,{{cite news |last1 = Young |first1 = Gordon |title = Thanks for Paying Attention to Flint. What Took You So Long? |url = https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/flint-michigan-problems-213549/ |website = Politico |access-date = January 12, 2023 }} Slate,{{cite web |last1 = Young |first1 = Gordon |title = Recently by Gordon Young |url = https://slate.com/author/gordon-young |website = Slate |access-date = January 12, 2022 }} Washington City Paper, Next City, Belt Magazine, Utne Reader, the San Jose Mercury-News and numerous other publications. He publishes the blog Flint Expatriates.{{cite web |last1 = Young |first1 = Gordon |title = Flint Expatriates |url = http://www.flintexpats.com/ |website = Flint Expatriates |access-date = January 12, 2023 }} His writing is also featured in "Happy Anyway: A Flint Anthology" and "Dispatches from the Rust Belt: The Best of Belt Year One."{{cite book |last1 = Young |first1 = Gordon |title = Dispatches from the Rust Belt: The Best of Belt Magazine |date = 2014 |publisher = Belt Publishing |location = Cleveland |isbn = 978-0985944179 |pages = 220 |url = https://www.amazon.com/Dispatches-Rust-Belt-Best-Year/dp/098594417X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=HYO2C3IKMF50&keywords=dispatches+from+the+rust+belt&qid=1673563816&s=books&sprefix=dispatches+from+the+rust+bel%2Cstripbooks%2C246&sr=1-1 |access-date = January 12, 2023 }}