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
- WWII Medal of Honor recipient, who died as POW, will be returned home to New Ulm
- U.S. judge rules Trump administration’s freeze on wind energy permits is unlawful
- Federal SNAP, Medicaid changes force Minnesota counties to raise property taxes
- Minnesotans rally, mobilize in solidarity with Somali Americans after Trump’s xenophobic rant
- Tariffs, input costs put pressure on Christmas tree prices
- New child care house aims to solve vexing small town child care shortage
- Even with shutdown over, Minnesota's food shelves brace for surge in need as holidays near
- Officials honor veterans in Mankato as shutdown looms over ceremony
- ‘A very dim future’: Delayed and reduced SNAP benefits hurt MN’s small town grocery stores
- Walz breaks ground on new $67 million regional BCA headquarters and crime lab in Mankato