
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
- Record high demand for food aid as Minnesotans make 9 million visits to food shelves in 2025
- Former Del Monte plant in Sleepy Eye sells for $600,000
- 'Language is a need': Ojibwe, Dakota speakers work to preserve, revive Indigenous languages
- Federal agents must unmask, wear bodycams and identify themselves in Mankato
- Minnesota food shelves shift gears and deliver groceries to immigrants in hiding
- Thousands of Minnesotans to be kicked off SNAP due to new eligibility requirements
- Children’s Museum of Southern Minnesota names one of its founders as new CEO
- Mankato explores ordinance requiring federal agents to demask, wear IDs and body cams
- Minnesota parents look for ways to help kids cope and process ICE trauma and chaos
- St. Peter police chief intervened and got federal agents to release resident, sources say
