About Me

Commitment to Journalism Leadership, Integrity & Innovation

Jeff Young has reported from Appalachian coalfields, Capitol Hill, and Cape Cod, with occasional jaunts to rainforests of Central America and Borneo. As Ohio Valley ReSource founder and managing editor Jeff oversees a team of seven journalists in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia. The ReSource has won several major awards for its enterprise and investigative reporting, and Jeff has trained young journalists to move up in the public media system. In 2020 Simon & Schuster published "Appalachian Fall," based on reporting by Jeff and his ReSource team. Jeff was Washington correspondent and host for the nationally distributed program "Living on Earth" from 2003 to 2012, where he covered climate and energy policy, presidential campaigns and major developments in science. From 2012 to 2016, he directed communications for ocean conservation campaigns in New England and the Mid-Atlantic for The Pew Charitable Trusts, work which resulted in the first Marine National Monument along the Atlantic Coast. Jeff grew up near Huntington, West Virginia, and studied journalism and biology at Marshall University and the University of Charleston. His reporting has been recognized with numerous awards and he was named a 2012 Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University.

He lives in Louisville with his wife, Helen Payne, an artist and educator, and their two daughters.