American Peabody Award-winning television news correspondent, commentator and as of February 2016, a special correspondent for the PBS NewsHour. He previously worked for NBC as a correspondent and commentator, covering issues for all NBC News programming, including NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, Today, and MSNBC. He has worked as part of the ABC News team that was awarded a Peabody Award for its 9/11 coverage. In 1990 Yang became a reporter and editor at The Washington Post, where he worked for nearly ten years. Yang is one of several openly gay national television correspondents. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less