Howard Yune

About

Twenty-four years of experience in the newspaper industry, including 22 years as a full-time daily writer and editor. City editor and public safety reporter for the Napa Valley Register (Napa, California). Longtime staff reporter and photographer covering politics, public safety and education in the City of Napa and the Town of Yountville. Former online coordinator of the website napavalleyregister.com, with experience in social media outreach and the BLOX Total CMS content management system. Responsible for video and multimedia production using Final Cut Express editing software. Weekend duties include photography and spot news coverage online, in social media and in print.Experience across a broad range of beats, including county and municipal politics, enterprise, business, transportation, education, courts coverage and features. Photographs published by dailies in California and Oregon.Former staff writer at the Appeal-Democrat (Marysville, California) and The World (Coos Bay, Oregon) Former correspondent for The Orange County Register.Twenty-three-time honoree in state news contests for California and Oregon. Winner of California News Publishers Association awards in 2025 for best writing, 2022 for best news photo in a small daily paper, in 2020 for in-depth reporting of the one-year anniversary of the Pathway Home shooting, in 2015 for breaking news coverage of the South Napa Earthquake, and in 2013 for best writing and best feature story. Recognized by the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association for excellence in business coverage in 2005.