Thepchai Yong

Thepchai Yong (; born 22 April 1955) is a Thai newspaper and television journalist known for his reporting on corruption and his criticism of the governments of Suchinda Kraprayoon and Thaksin Shinawatra.

Biography Thepchai Yong began his journalism career in the early-1980s as a proofreader for the Thai English-language daily The Nation. He eventually worked his way up the position of editor, a position he still held during the 1992 "Black May" democratic uprising against the military government of General Suchinda Kraprayoon.

From 1996 to 2000, Thepchai Yong served as news director of iTV, the nation's first independent television network. During this time, he became known for his investigations into political scandals and corruption.

After leaving iTV, Thepchai Yong helped found the Thai Broadcast Journalists Association in 2001, serving as its president from 2002-2004. In 2003, the group's Thai-language paper Kom Chad Luek came under pressure not to run a story that Panthongtae Shinawatra, the prime minister's son, had been caught cheating on a college exam; Thepchai Yong ran the story on the paper's front page, and was subsequently forced to resign from the Nation Multimedia Group.

Thepchai Yong became Managing Director of the Thai Public Broadcasting Service—a government entity which replaced iTV—in 2008. He has also won the Human Rights Press Award of Amnesty International.