Martin Young (journalist)
{{Short description|British newsreader (1947–2024)}}
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Martin Young (5 July 1947 – 10 May 2024) was a British television reporter{{cite journal|title=?|journal=New Statesman|year=1986|volume=112|pages=59|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1HGGAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Martin+Young%22}}{{cite book|last=James|first=Clive|title=The crystal bucket: television criticism from the Observer, 1976-79|year=1981|publisher=Jonathan Cape|isbn=978-0-224-01890-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=681kAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Martin+Young%22+bbc|page=185}} and interviewer.
Life and career
Born in Glasgow, he attended Dulwich College and Caius College, Cambridge where he was President of the Marlowe Society and a member of Footlights.Who's Who on Television, Independent Television Publications Ltd (1970)
Young began his career as a researcher for Border Television in 1969, and became a reporter/presenter for Tyne Tees Television in 1970 before joining BBC Look North. In 1973, he joined Nationwide, going on to work on both Newsnight and Panorama. In 1980 he helped to found the award-winning programme Rough Justice{{cite news|last=Mycock|first=Anthony|title=Rough Justice Man Is Freed|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RR0-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=RUoMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3278,726354&dq=martin-young+rough-justice&hl=en|accessdate=11 December 2010|newspaper=Evening Times|date=5 December 1985}} which led to the release of five people on murder and serious assault charges. This work formed the basis of two books: Rough Justice and More Rough Justice, co-authored with Peter Hill.{{Cite book|last1=Young|first1=Martin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GsUvAQAAIAAJ|title=Rough Justice|last2=Hill|first2=Peter|date=1983|publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation|isbn=978-0-563-20129-8|language=en}} In 1986 he and the producer, Peter Hill, were suspended from the BBC for three months and barred from working on investigative programmes for two years after being found to have made 'unjustifiable threats'{{Cite web|date=1986-01-04|title=BBC SUSPENDS REPORTERS FOR INTERVIEW TACTICS|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-01-04-ca-24394-story.html|access-date=2021-05-26|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}} to make an interviewee withdraw allegations which had led to a conviction.{{Cite web|title=Rough Justice journalists suspended · British Universities Film & Video Council|url=http://bufvc.ac.uk/tvandradio/lbc/index.php/segment/0000200025004|access-date=2021-05-26|website=bufvc.ac.uk}}
Young co-presented the Midday News programme on LBC Newstalk 97.3 FM on London's news station, alongside Brian Widlake. He also worked on BBC Radio 4 hosting the panel game Who Goes There?,{{cite news|last=Gaisford|first=Sue|title=Radio: What a boring bunch of bankers|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/radio-what-a-boring-bunch-of-bankers-1166434.html|accessdate=11 December 2010|newspaper=The Independent|date= 21 June 1998}} guested on the first three series of Have I Got News for You, and was later a media trainer.
Young died from liver cancer on 10 May 2024, at the age of 76.{{cite news |title=Martin Young, intrepid BBC investigative journalist who cofounded Rough Justice – obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/05/15/martin-young-rough-justice-bbc-panorama-nationwide-obituary/ |access-date=15 May 2024 |publisher=The Telegraph |date=15 May 2024}}{{cite news |title=Martin Young obituary, investigative BBC journalist |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/article/martin-young-jljpfhxqq |access-date=29 May 2024 |work=The Times |date=29 May 2024}}
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External links
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