Kimi Yoshino

Kimi Yoshino is an American journalist and managing editor of The Washington Post. She was the founding editor-in-chief of The Baltimore Banner, a nonprofit publication funded by Baltimore-area hotel magnate Stewart W. Bainum Jr.

Biography Yoshino worked at the Stockton Record and the Fresno Bee before joining the Los Angeles Times in 2000. Yoshino reported on unethical practices at a fertility clinic in the University of California Irvine, and on dangerous rides at Disneyland. Yoshino was the guiding editor of an investigative story about the Bell corruption scandal that won a Pulitzer Gold Medal in 2011 for Public Service. She met her husband, a translator, while working in Iraq. In 2015 and 2016, Yoshino received awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers for general excellence.

In January 2018, Yoshino was unexpectedly approached by chief editor Lewis D’Vorkin while in a meeting, and escorted directly outside without being able to retrieve her personal belongings. There was no explanation to the press or others in the company. Nieman Lab, the Boston Herald, the Stockton Record