Categories: OLD Media Moves

Kimes leaves Bloomberg for ESPN

Bloomberg News enterprise investigative reporter Mina Kimes, who earlier this year won a SABEW award for outstanding young business journalist, has left the news organization for a senior writer position at ESPN the magazine.

A Bloomberg spokesman confirmed her departure, and her LinkedIn bio now contains her new position.

Kimes was selected as the first winner of the Larry Birger Young Business Journalist prize at the SABEW annual conference in Phoenix in late March. The Larry Birger Award recognizes the nation’s top young business journalist, up to the age of 30.

Kimes had been at Bloomberg for slightly more than a year. Before that, she worked Fortune for four and a half years and Fortune Small Business for slightly more than two years.

She is a Yale University graduate. In 2009, she won the New York Press Club’s Nellie Bly Cub Reporter Award.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.