Tulsa World photojournalist Cory Young joined the newspaper as a post-graduate intern reporter/photographer for the Midtown and East Community World sections one week after his May 2002 graduation from Langston University. Two months later, he was hired as a full-time Community World staffer. After five years of reporting, Cory was hired as a full-time newsroom photographer in March 2007. While in college, Cory used his non-school hours working as a reporter for five different newspapers throughout Oklahoma and Colorado, where he grew up.