Eric Young is a New Zealand journalist and television presenter. He has presented Prime News – First at 5:30 since March 2006.

Young's broadcasting career began on radio in Auckland in the early 1980s. After a seven-year diversion to the Auckland Star’s sports department, Young returned to broadcasting with the launch of TV3 in 1989.

He has been the New Zealand Sports Writer of the Year and New Zealand Sports Broadcaster of the Year. In 2008 he was the Sports Journalist of the Year, largely for work done as editor of SKY Sport: The Magazine.

He began as a sports newsreader for Radio-i

Radio-i

Radio-i was a Multilingual commercial radio station based in central Japan in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, owned by the Kowa Company....

 in 1981. Subsequently he worked at the Auckland Star

Auckland Star

The Auckland Star was an evening daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, from 24 March 1870 to 20 August 1991. Survived by its Sunday edition, the Sunday Star, part of its name endures in The Sunday Star-Times, created in the 1994 merger of the Dominion Sunday Times and the Sunday...

 for six years as chief cricket and rugby league writer. Young has also worked for TVNZ, TV3

TV3 (New Zealand)

TV3 is a New Zealand commercial television network, owned by MediaWorks New Zealand. Launched on 26 November 1989, the first private television network in New Zealand...

, Optus Vision and ESPN Star Sports

ESPN Star Sports

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, as a sports commentator and news presenter.