Renita D.

Young
renita@renitadyoung.com | /renitadyoung | /renitareports

EXPERIENCE
Bloomberg TV, Radio & Quicktake | Anchor, Correspondent & Voice Talent | New York, N.Y. | Jan. 2019-Present
• Live markets/news anchor & correspondent: Bloomberg TV, Radio and 24-hour streaming platform Quicktake
• Host and producer: daily Bloomberg Black Business Beat, airing on 33+ U.S. affiliate radio stations and SiriusXM
• Host: daily Crypto Report on Bloomberg Radio; Launched weekly personal finance show #YourMoneyStory on Quicktake
Reuters TV | Commodities Correspondent, #GoldWatch Anchor-Host | New York, N.Y. | July 2017-Jan. 2019
• Launched Reuters TV’s first weekly social segment on eccentric gold trends averaging 125,000+ Twitter campaign views
• Report daily commodities markets & feature wire stories; Occasionally cover breaking news for Reuters.com & Reuters TV
Freelance Multimedia Journalist/Strategist | International | March 2009-Jan. 2019
• Multimedia content producer/planner; Medill Graduate Admissions consultant; freelance photographer and live producer
• Multimedia reporter, social media manager for the 2012 Olympics; JET Magazine; BBC TV & radio contributor
Reuters | National Association of Black Journalists Fellow | Chicago, Ill. | Nov. 2016-June 2017
• Produce daily grains markets reports & multimedia-in-depth agriculture features for Reuters.com & Reuters TV
• Occasionally cover national general assignment news; Chicago breaking news stringer from Aug. 2012-Oct. 2013
WBBM Radio & TV (CBS Affiliate) | Web Producer | Chicago, Ill. | Aug. 2016-Nov. 2016
• Report/write original articles; edit TV, radio articles for CBSChicago.com; Use SEO with daily Web content
• Break news on CBSChicago.com and via push alerts; craft engaging messaging across social media & text platform
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune | Staff Reporter | Baton Rouge & New Orleans, La. | Oct. 2013-Sept. 2015
• Multimedia coverage of sports business, entrepreneurship, professional development, real estate, oil & gas industry, crime
• Skillfully used alternative story forms: podcasts, videos, multimedia slideshows, by-the-numbers lists, profiles, how-to’s
NBCUniversal | Chicago Correspondent for theGrio.com | Chicago, Ill. | May 2012-Oct. 2013
• Breaking news reporter covering national crime, politics & education from Chicago
• Covered the 2013 Presidential Inauguration, 2012 Chicago Teachers Union strike, Ill. 2nd Congressional District race
WVON 1690 AM/iHeartRadio | Lead Contributor, Anchor | Chicago, Ill. | July 2010-Oct. 2013
• Anchored segment on top African-American entrepreneurs for WVON/Black Enterprise’s Urban Business Roundtable
• Filled in for news/traffic/weather anchors; voiced commercials
AOL | Founding Local Editor of Evergreen Park Patch | Evergreen Park, Ill. | Oct. 2010-July 2012
• Managed website, editorial budgets & freelancers for an online news & information hub with 50,000+ unique visitors
• Shot, wrote, produced & edited original multimedia breaking & general news; hosted forums; curated newsletters
K24-TV & Kameme FM Radio | Business Reporter, Guest Host | Nairobi, Kenya | Jan. 2009-March 2009
• Worked as a “one man band” reporter—shooting, writing & editing business news; voiced TV & radio commercials
• Produced special projects & hosted a 30-minute show on President Barack Obama’s 2009 Inauguration
WYCC-TV (PBS Affiliate) | Multimedia Reporter | Chicago, Ill. & Washington, D.C. | Jan. 2008-Dec. 2008
• Reported as a correspondent for FOX News 2 in St. Thomas, The Virgin Islands, UPI.com & the Chicago Journal
• “One man band” reporter—shooting, writing & editing multimedia business news stories for the Medill News Network
MY50 Chicago-TV (FOX Affiliate) | Associate Producer/Intern | Chicago, Ill. | June 2008-Sept. 2008
• Researched show topics & guests for Perspective public affairs talk show
• Wrote scripts & assisted with live-to-tape, in-show production
WLS-TV (ABC Affiliate) | Production Intern for the Ebert & Roeper Show | Chicago, Ill. | Sept. 2006-Nov. 2006
• Researched movies & attended screenings for script accuracy
• Produced news inserts; assisted with post-production; transcribed show episodes; managed show & movie libraries

EDUCATION Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University Evanston, Ill.

MS - Broadcast Journalism March 2009
DePaul University Honors Program Chicago, Ill.
BA - Communication: Radio/Television/Film minoring in English: Professional Writing June 2007

SKILLS SEO, Social Media Optimization trained; Audio: Adobe Audition & Audacity; Video: Avid, Final Cut, Adobe Premiere Pro;
Still photography: Adobe Photoshop; trained in various CMS systems: Word Press, ENPS & CAN; HTML Coding; trained in Computer
Assisted Reporting using FOIA requests & databases; AP-style writing; skilled with the Bloomberg Terminal; trained by Centurion Risk
Assessment Services in hostile environments & emergency first aid

ACTIVITIES/HONORS National Association of Black Journalists Business Journalism Task Force co-chair; Launched NABJ’s
Entrepreneurship Network as co-chair; NABJ Chicago Chapter Past President & Secretary; Society of Professional Journalists;
Newswomen’s Club of New York; Named to the UN’s Most Influential People of African Descent Top 100 under 40 2021 class; Named
to Chicago Defender’s inaugural Top 40 Under 40 class; Medill/Northwestern & DePaul Alumni Associations