Gordon Young
M.A. in Journalism, University of Missouri
M.A. in Literature, Nottingham University
is a journalist who has written for The New York Times, Politico, Slate, and numerous other publications. He is the recipient of an Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) award for magazine writing. Though he covers a wide variety of topics that inform his teaching, more recently his reporting has concentrated on economic and urban planning trends as the United States struggles with deindustrialization and shrinking cities. He is the author of (University of California Press) that chronicles life in his hometown of Flint, Michigan. Teardown was named a Michigan Notable Book and filmmaker Michael Moore called it "a brilliant chronicle of the Mad Maxization of a once-great American city."