COLUMBIA, Mo. —
Emily Younker, a reporter for The Joplin Globe, is one of two journalists selected to receive the Missouri Outstanding Young Journalist award from the Missouri Press Association.
Brady Brite, a reporter from the Christian County Headliner News, Ozark, also received the distinction representing weekly papers.
Younker was just leaving Missouri Southern State University after covering Joplin’s high school graduation ceremonies on May 22, 2011, when tornado sirens sounded.
Carol Stark, editor of The Joplin Globe, described Younker as a “precise, fact-driven journalist who connects well with people.
“Possibly Younker’s most important contribution was keeping an accurate list of those who died,” Stark said.
“She was also assigned to gather photos and personal details of the victims. On June 12, 2011, the Globe published her work, ‘Faces of the Storm,’ which I believe was the most poignant story from the tornado,” Stark wrote in her nominating letter.
Younker received degrees from Missouri State University and the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She joined the Globe’s staff in September of 2009.
In addition to Younker and Brite, Phil Conger, president of MPA announced judges had selected five outstanding young journalists to receive Awards of Merit: Dugan Arnett, The Kansas City Star; Seth Stringer, Sedalia Democrat; Tyler Francke, Branson Tri-Lakes News; Emily Letterman, Christian County Headliner News, Ozark; and Paul Thompson, Jackson County Advocate, Grandview.
Winners of the award have demonstrated excellence in the field of journalism and maintained the quality, ethics and standards of The Journalist’s Creed, written by Walter Williams, founding dean of the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
The nominees for the award must have been younger than 30 years old on Jan. 1, 2012.
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