COMMUNITY & CULTURE
20 PEOPLE TO KNOW
EMILY RAU
News Anchor
KMOV-TV
If you tune in to the early morning Channel 4 news show,
you’ve seen a new anchor this year. Never in her wildest
dreams, did Emily Rau think she would get up at 1 a.m.
to go to work. But her days have started that way since
January when she was moved to the anchor seat next to
Andre Hepkins, leading the News 4 This Morning team
from 4:30 to 7 every morning.
A Washington, Missouri native, Emily worked as a reporter
in Norfolk, Virginia before returning to Missouri to work
at KMOV-TV in 2012. She started in the St. Charles
County bureau, lugging a camera from Wentzville to
Augusta as a “one-man-band” reporter. A year in, Emily
moved to the morning show, covering breaking news
around the viewing area, including extensive reporting
during last year’s events in Ferguson, Missouri.
Emily graduated from Washington High School and
attended the University of Missouri in Columbia. A fourthgeneration Mizzou alum and Tiger fan, Emily is a graduate
of the Missouri School of Journalism. She is a National
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Mid-America
Chapter Emmy winner, and a Missouri Broadcaster Award
recipient. She serves on the board of Girls In The Know, a
nonprofit dedicated to empowering young girls.
GAZELLE WEST