LA Times biz editor promoted to deputy managing editor

Kimi Yoshino

Kimi Yoshino, the business editor of the Los Angeles Times, has been promoted to deputy managing editor of the paper in a new newsroom executive structure.

Meg James of the Times writes, “Also promoted was Kimi Yoshino, 46, who has served as business editor for the last four years. She becomes deputy managing editor, overseeing sports, business, arts, entertainment and lifestyle coverage. In the last few months, Yoshino also was in charge of the newspaper’s digital report. She worked as an editor in Metro and as a reporter, joining the paper’s Orange County edition in 2000.

“‘I have come to recognize Kimi’s innate sense of fairness,’ Pearlstine said in the memo. ‘She makes tough decisions look easy. I also appreciate her ability to create an environment that encourages collaboration and great journalism.’

“Yoshino, who grew up in Modesto, attracted attention in January, when she was suspended by a previous editor, a move that prompted an outcry from the newsroom, which quickly mobilized in support of her.”

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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.