Ric Young

I can perform a deep south rural accent, a southern gentlemen's mild accent. a light british accent. R and B radio announcer. Snooty rich New England accent. News Anchor presentation. Darth Vader impersonation.

My voice over career spans several genres. I am currently a radio host/anchor for an international broadcaster heard in New York City, Washington, DC and Miami, Florida. I have voiced thousands of news reports in my 25 years in the TV news business. I also narrated a TELLY award winning documentary entitled "The Forgotten Fourteen", the story of 14 black Civil War soldiers who earned the Congressional Medal of Honor. The video was produced by Jackson Associates of Richmond Virginia. I completed a major portion of the Colonial Williamsburg Internet History project for high schools including historical narration from the Civil War and from such historic orators as Frederick Douglass. The project is online for high schools across the country. I am a regular anchor for videos produced by the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. I have also hosted scores of industrials for clients like Booz-Allen-Hamilton, U.S. Postal Service,U.S. Army, U.S Navy, Wal-Mart, Norfolk and Southern, Veterans Administration, Georgia-Pacific, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. Edge Communications of Richmond video series on Workplace Diversity and Leadership. And an on-camera host for a variety of websites. I am an EMMY winning reporter and EMMY nominated news anchor. I have a degree in Political Science, with a minor in Theatre. I have voiced over not only news reports over the years but also scores of PSA's for the 5 TV stations I have worked for. You can see my on-camera work, both news and host/narrator video's at my website. I have the Samson G-Track mic system with Audacity recording software. I am also close to a recording studio with an ISDN line. I am an EMMY nominated writer. I can assist in writing copy for a client. As a former News Anchor/Reporter I have always helped write my own material for the anchor desk and written my own scripts for the field. As a reporter I have written and reported a wide variety of subjects so I can be of help to any client that might need assistance. You can see my on-camera work, both news and host/narrator video's at my website.