Christine Young has worked for almost 20 years in both newspapers and television. She and her colleagues at the Times Herald-Record were awarded the 2008 Sigma Delta Chi Award for Investigative Reporting (affiliated) and she received the 2009 Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting Award from John Jay College of Criminal Justice at The City University of New York for the story, "I Didn’t Do That Murder" for the Times Herald-Record. For other stories, Young has received an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton, National Headliner Award, Clarion Award, and an Edward R. Murrow Award.