Meet Hannah Yang
Hannah Yang is a senior reporter based in Worthington and Mankato, where she covers southwest Minnesota.
Before MPR News, Hannah covered education and county news for the Austin Daily Herald. She also served as a regional reporter for the Rochester Post Bulletin, covering Dodge, Fillmore and Mower counties.
Hannah’s work has been recognized with several awards, including a regional Edward R. Murrow Award, a National Headliner Award, multiple Page One Awards from the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists, and first place for best use of video in the Better Newspaper Contest from the Minnesota Newspaper Association.
Hannah graduated with a bachelor’s degree in news and information with a minor and specialization in Spanish from the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. Hannah is a proud second-generation Korean American and grew up in Cleveland. She's a mom of two corgis and married to her best friend.
You can find Hannah on LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.
Recent Contributions
- Summer camps close, wilderness trips end and kids head home due to BWCA wildfires
- PUC approves permits for big solar power and energy storage project in southern Minnesota
- New $24 million Rolls-Royce expansion opens in Mankato
- With construction season underway, are Minnesota’s roads getting better? Drivers weigh in
- Fill the tank or the fridge? High gas prices force the food insecure to make tough choices
- Officials eye winter start date for southern Minnesota bridge destroyed by flood
- Mankato Clinic lays off about 100 employees but says patient care won't be affected
- Housing nonprofit to break ground on affordable housing project at former Mankato convent site
- Mankato Clinic doctors delivered him and treated him as a child. Now’s he’s the new CFO
- Some young adults transitioning out of foster care are now losing SNAP food aid benefits
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