Rachel Yonkunas Biography
Rachel Yonkunas is an American journalist working as a reporter for FOX 43 News. She attended the University of Tampa and graduated Cum Laude. She enjoys interacting with the community.
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Rachel Yonkunas Career | Rachel Yonkunas FOX 43 News
Rachel Yonkunas is an Emmy-assigned journalist who joined the FOX43 Newsgroup in June 2019 as an analytical columnist and co-grapple of FOX43 News at 10 pm.
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Before moving to Pennsylvania, Rachel worked at WFSB in her home province of Connecticut, WTEN in New York, and WTVY in Alabama. She additionally voyaged universally, conveying covers international strategy relations between the U.S. what’s more, China.
Rachel was assigned for a New York Emmy Award for her exceptional report on school wellbeing. The story featured a Massachusetts-based organization that structured an item to defer constrained passage at schools the country over. It included a paramount meeting with a Sandy Hook Elementary School first grade instructor who spared the lives of her fifteen understudies during the country’s deadliest mass school shooting.
Rachel feels favored to recount stories that demonstrate the veracity of history. Her preferred part of news detailing is carrying light to issues that serve the general population.
Most quite, Rachel’s examination concerning the execution of Common Core scholarly measures started a statewide redesign of the disputable educational program in New York.
Rachel likewise uncovered perilously high PFOA levels in a network’s drinking water that provoked a government reaction, secured the rollout of therapeutic and recreational weed laws, and pulled 9 G’s in an F-16 fly with the U.S. Flying corps Thunderbirds.
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FOX43’s Rachel Yonkunas to make anchor debut Friday
Source; fox43.com
YORK — FOX43 is proud to announce that Rachel Yonkunas has joined the FOX43 NEWS team as an anchor/reporter. Yonkunas will debut on the anchor desk during FOX43 NEWS FIRST AT FOUR Friday, June 7, at 4 p.m. She started appearing on-air earlier this week.
Prior to moving to Pennsylvania, Rachel Yonkunas worked at WFSB in her home state of Connecticut, WTEN in New York, and WTVY in Alabama.
Yonkunas is a graduate of the University of Tampa. At FOX43, she will co-anchor FOX43 NEWS AT TEN, sharing the desk with Evan Forrester. In addition, Yonkunas will be featured as an investigative reporter.
“I cannot wait to immerse myself in everything there is to experience here,” Yonkunas says. “The people are so kind, the communities are vibrant, and I am struck by how visually eclectic this part of Pennsylvania is.”
In her career, Yonkunas has investigated controversial education practices, exposed dangerous chemical levels in drinking water, and flown with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds.
Yonkunas was nominated for a New York Emmy Award for her report on a device that would protect schools by delaying a forced entry.
“When we saw Rachel’s investigative record, we knew she would be a great addition to our team,” says FOX43 General Manager Christopher Topf. “Seeing the community impact that Rachel has had with her stories, this move was a no-brainer for FOX43.
With Rachel’s in-depth investigative skills, we have put in place another team member to build on the quality work that Jackie DeTore has already started weekly with FOX43 Finds Out, and that the rest of our news team continues to produce every day for the 47 hours of local broadcast news that FOX43 produces every week.”