Remembering CNN’s Dan Young

Dan Young, a CNN original and the network’s director of field operations, passed away unexpectedly over the weekend.

“Dan was the classic CNN success story,” Daryn Kagan said this morning. “He joined the network at an entry-level position, but soon became a photojournalist traveling the world, shooting video for CNN.” Most recently, he was in charge of over 90 photojournalists across the nation.

Kagan said: “The memory I will always share with Dan is he was the photographer for the two weeks that I spent covering Bono’s trip across Africa with Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill back in 2002. There’s Dan and our producer, Ted Winner, taken in Africa with Bono. Four countries, 17 cases of equipment and more memories and stories than I could even begin to tell you. They will last forever.”