The Washington Post announced Thursday the hiring of Kimi Yoshino as managing editor overseeing features, sports, local, investigations and data.
Yoshino is joining the Post from The Baltimore Banner, where she currently serves as founding editor-in-chief. In the three and a half years of her leadership, The Banner has evolved into the largest newsroom in the state, with paid subscribers in every Maryland county. Earlier this month, The Banner was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for groundbreaking local journalism that exposed Baltimore as the deadliest large city in the nation for drug overdoses.
“I’m thrilled for The Post to benefit from Kimi’s sharp editorial eye and tenacious entrepreneurial spirit,” said Matt Murray, executive editor of The Post, in a statement. “Paired with our commitment to journalistic excellence, her leadership will be key as we build our next newsroom chapter.”
Yoshino’s hire rounds out Murray’s leadership team, which includes managing editors Jason Anders, Liz Seymour, Peter Spiegel and Scott Vance. Anders, former deputy editor-in-chief for The Wall Street Journal, was announced earlier this month, and Spiegel, former U.S. managing editor for The Financial Times, was announced in January.
Yoshino will begin at The Post on July 7, reporting to Murray.
She previously was business editor of the Los Angeles Times.
Before joining the Times in 2000, Yoshino worked as a reporter at the Stockton Record and Fresno Bee. She grew up in Modesto and attended the University of California at Davis.
After joining the Times, she was a reporter for the Metro and Business sections, covering the cruise industry and the Disney theme parks, and did two rotations reporting from Baghdad. She then became an editor, helping guide the paper’s investigation into corruption in the city of Bell, which won the Pulitzer Gold Medal for Public Service in 2011.
In 2018, Talking Biz News named her Business Journalist of the Year.
