Alison Young

Alison Young is the Houston Landing’s Associate Editor for Investigations, a player-coach role that combines doing investigative reporting with also serving as a newsroom reporting coach. Alison is a veteran investigative journalist who has previously reported on health, environment and consumer issues for national and regional news organizations, including USA Today, the Detroit Free Press, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Dallas Times Herald. She is also the author of Pandora’s Gamble: Lab Leaks, Pandemics, and a World at Risk, which was named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2023. Before joining Houston Landing in September, Alison was the Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting and Washington, D.C., program director for the University of Missouri School of Journalism from fall 2019 through summer 2024. She continues to work with Mizzou’s investigative reporting students as an adjunct professor. She is a past president of Investigative Reporters & Editors, an international journalism training organization. Her reporting has received dozens of national journalism awards, including National Press Club Awards, Scripps Howard Awards, the Hillman Prize, a Sigma Delta Chi Award, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and awards from the Association of Health Care Journalists and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.