Chris Young

American University Fellow  The Center for Public Integrity
cyoung@publicintegrity.org
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Chris Young is an American University Fellow currently working as a member of the Center’s Consider the Source team. Before joining the Center in September, he worked for five years as a reporter for Pittsburgh City Paper, the Steel City’s alternative weekly newspaper. A staffer since he graduated from Duquesne University in 2007, Young covered education, neighborhoods and politics for the paper. A number of his stories won first-place awards from the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania, including an investigative piece that revealed problematic billing practices at the Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority and a story that documented the difficulties of diagnosing and treating bipolar disorder in children.

Coverage areas

Corporations and conservative foundations are top sponsors of judicial junkets.

GMU center accepted funds from firm headed by former Bolivian president accused of human rights violations.

Reports of privately funded trips and seminars made by federal judges are often difficult to find, incomplete or missing.

Attempts to oust justices in Florida and Iowa fail; GOP scores in N.Car., Montana too close to call.

State supreme court elections vulnerable to outside spending by ideological groups.

Supreme court justices in two states are under siege from groups that oppose their rulings.