Chris Young
Journalist & Teacher
The Center for Public Integrity is an online news organization specializing in investigative journalism. Reporters in the Center's nonprofit newsroom cover a variety of topics, including politics, the environment and national security.
Chris joined The Center for Public Integrity in September 2012 as a member of the nonprofit news organization's "Consider the Source" team.
He reported about judicial ethics issues for a year and a half before becoming the lead reporter for the Center's "Misinformation Industry" project, which investigates industries' efforts to influence policy by misleading the public.
In April 2015, Chris appeared on C-SPAN to discuss an investigative series he co-reported with colleague Erin Quinn about food additives.
Chris co-wrote the script for this animated video explaining how food companies can add ingredients to food without even telling the FDA.
A 'black box'
Meet the secretive trade group regulating the safety of flavors
Food additive safety
Why the FDA has no idea what's in your food
'Hired guns'
Food safety scientists conflicted, boast ties to Big Tobacco
Kochs invest in happiness/well-being
New Koch bros PR initiative aims to put a happy face on free-market policies
Look who's Teaching
Corporations sponsor business-friendly conference on public pension reform as judges prepare to hear pension cases in court
Calorie Control Council?
Meet the front group defending the artificial sweetener industry
Judicial Junkets
Corporations, pro-business nonprofits foot bill for judicial seminars
Justice Obscured
Secret court judge attended expenses-paid terrorism seminar
Guilty Plea
Federal appellate judges rule on two-dozen cases despite having financial interest in parties
Judicial Junkets
Secret court judge attended terrorism seminar
Judicial Junkets
Federal judges sometimes ignore t​rip disclosure rules
2012 Election
Right-wing groups attempt to dislodge justices in Florida, Iowa