Ryan Young joined the Channel 2 Action News team in July 2005.
The Miami native got his first big TV break while still in college by hosting a syndicated sports show.
After graduating from Florida State University with a bachelor’s degree in Media Production, Ryan went right to work at WTXL-TV in Tallahassee, Fla., where he kept local viewers in touch with a wide variety of big stories, including the 2002 Florida elections and Florida State’s National Championship run.
As a reporter for WTOC-TV in Savannah, Ryan provided viewers with crucial, up-to-the-minute late-night reports, earning two Associated Press awards, one for best investigative piece that exposed dangerous cigarette lighters and the other for best spot news coverage of a major street collapse.
Ryan went on to tell the stories of people whose lives were torn apart by hurricanes Ivan and Frances, while working for WNCN-TV in Raleigh, N.C. While covering the problem of gangs in the state, Ryan produced a groundbreaking report on gangs in the military, a story that earned him national recognition.
Ryan says he is "happy to be back in the Peach State!"
When not in front of the camera, Ryan enjoys reading, anything that has to do with football and playing a game of fetch with his dog.
A year and a half after the two men were shot to death in their apartment, police say they have the man responsible in custody. Police tell Channel 2 Action News they were able link Derrick Burden to a double homicide on Richmond Circle in September 2010. Now, investigators say ...
Atlanta police are warning Craigslist sellers to be careful after a recent rash of snatch-and-grabs by a group of young men. Enrique Santiago told Channel 2's Ryan Young he's glad to be OK and able to tell his story. Santiago listed his new iPad for sale on Craigslist a few ...
Georgia State football coach Bill Curry has dismissed junior quarterback Bo Schlecter from the team, and sophomore placekicker Christian Benvenuto and junior linebacker Dexter Moody have been suspended indefinitely after the three were arrested by Atlanta police for fighting in Buckhead early Thursday morning. One of the fight victims, Chris ...
A DeKalb County police officer resigned after admitting to having sex while on duty. Former DeKalb officer Freddie Davis handed in his resignation letter in March after he was confronted about his relationship with a woman. Davis said he met a woman named Lakesa Page in September, and a sexual ...
Georgia State University police are looking for two men accused of beating a student from the college. “The whole right side of my face had to be reconstructed. I have four plates holding my face together,” said the student whose identity has been withheld for his safety. The victim told ...
Two different reality stars faced a real life danger when a disagreement over hair turned to gunfire in Buckhead. Atlanta police sources tell Channel 2's Ryan Young they are looking for a gun-toting hair stylist who got mad when his client went to someone else for help. Celebrity hair stylist ...
A local grandmother said she is grateful that her granddaughters are safe after they fought off a man who tried to attack one of the girls as they walked to school. Vanessa Lumpkin said her granddaughters, ages 10 and 11, had a brush with the alleged abductor Tuesday morning as ...
A man accused of killing a police officer went before a judge Wednesday to complain about the conditions behind bars. Jamie Hood told a judge he was upset because he believes people are making him out to be a monster. Hood is accused of fatally shooting Athens-Clarke County Officer Elmer ...
Channel 2 Action News has learned police have identified three men they believe attacked a young man while shouting gay slurs in southwest Atlanta. Both Mayor Kasim Reed and Atlanta Police Chief George Turner have pledged 24-hour support to arrest the suspects in this case. Channel 2's Ryan Young spent ...
Brandon White told Channel 2 Action News he's afraid to stay in his own home after a group of men beat him and yelled gay slurs at him. White held a news conference Wednesday to discuss the brutal beating he took when eight men attacked him outside a southwest Atlanta ...