LA Times biz editor Yoshino to receive award

Los Angeles Times business editor Kimi Yoshino has been named the Los Angeles Press Club’s 2018 Presidents Awardee for Impact on Media.

Yoshino oversees an award-winning staff of some 30 reporters and editors covering business news and the entertainment industry.

Since she started at The Times in 2000, Yoshino has helped guide reporting on the Bell corruption scandal, which won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service and the LA Press Club’s Public Service Award. She was a morning assignment editor in Metro and helped establish L.A. Now, the Times’ most-read blog and go-to source for reliable, real-time coverage of the biggest stories in Southern California.

As business editor, Yoshino rebuilt and re-energized the staff and helped re-launch the section with a greater focus on California business coverage. For two years in a row, the section was recognized with the highest general excellence award by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. And this year, it brought home 11 SABEW honors – more than any other news outlet.

“Kimi represents the best of what we as journalists strive to do every day,” said Press Club President Chris Palmeri, Los Angeles bureau Chief for Bloomberg, in a statement. “She tackles tough stories, whether it be corrupt officials in the city of Bell or municipal tax breaks for the richest entertainment company in the world. She has inspired her team to write an open letter in her defense to their boss. That’s why we’re so happy to have her accept this award, ”

The President’s Award will be presented at the 60^th SoCal Journalism Awards Gala on Sunday, June 24 at the Biltmore Millennium Hotel, in downtown Los Angeles.

“I’m humbled and honored to receive this award from the Los Angeles Press Club,” said Yoshino. “Like many of my colleagues at the L.A. Times, I am looking forward to putting a tumultuous period behind us as we work with our new owner to maintain our high journalistic standards and strengthen our voice covering California and the West.”

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.

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Alfredo Santana says:
March 19, 2018 at 11:16 pm
With all due respect, Kimi Yoshino is not an expert in biz journalism edit and coverage. She grew from the metro section and grafted into its current position, partially because the turmoil the newspaper experienced with its former owner Tronc, in the last 10-15 years.