Cenk Uygur is the CEO and founder of TYT, host of The Young Turks - the first partner channel on YouTube - and also co-founded the Justice Democrats. Cenk is also the bestselling author of Justice is Coming, available wherever books and audiobooks are sold. With a verified global audience of more than 200 million views a month and 31 billion total video views, TYT is the #1 most engaged news and politics network.
Uygur launched The Young Turks as Sirius Satellite Radio’s first original talk show in 2002 and uploaded their first video on YouTube in 2005. Since then, The Young Turks has become the longest-running daily online stream and has consistently been the leading news and politics show for young, progressive viewers.
Uygur was the host of The Young Turks on Current TV, which was the most popular show on the channel’s two-year run. Prior to Current TV, Uygur was the host of MSNBC
Live at 6pm ET. He’s also appeared on CNN, ABC News’ This Week with George Stephanopoulos, NPR, Voice of America, Fox News Channel, Breaking Points, Brian Tyler Cohen, Tucker Carlson, and more.
Uygur graduated from the Wharton School of Business at University of Pennsylvania and from Columbia Law School