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Mina Kimes
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born September 8, 1985 (age 33)
Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
Education Yale University
Occupation Journalist
Mina Kimes is a Los Angeles-based American investigative journalist who specializes in business and sports reporting. A multiple award-winner, she has written for Fortune magazine, Bloomberg News, and ESPN.
Early life
Kimes is of Korean descent on her mother's side. She graduated summa cum laude from Yale with a B.A. in English.
Career
Kimes' first position after college was at Fortune Small Business Magazine in 2007. As a business journalist, she won awards from the New York Press Club, the National Press Club, and the Asian American Journalists Association, amongst other places. Her 2012 investigation entitled Bad to the Bone exposed the unauthorized use of a cement to repair bone tissue, with lethal consequences, for which she won the Henry R. Luce Award. The Columbia Journalism Review included her exposes among its business must-reads for 2012. In 2014, she received the Larry Birger Young Business Journalist Prize from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
She joined Bloomberg News in 2013 as an investigative reporter. Her profiles of business executives Doug Oberhelman of Caterpillar, in a piece titled King Kat, and Sears executive Eddie Lampert, in a piece titled The Sun Tzu at Sears, won her the Front Page Award for business reporting.
She was offered a position by ESPN editors after she wrote an essay on Tumblr about a "bond between herself and her dad and the Seattle Seahawks;" she is an avid fan of that team.She wrote about young sports superstars such as University of Houston basketball player Devonta Pollard, who got mixed up in a family dispute and, at one point, testified against his own mother. She has written profiles of NFL players Aaron Rodgers, Darrelle Revis, Antonio Brown, and Michael and Martellus Bennett, and wrote a feature on Korean League of Legends star Faker.
She is also an active panelist on Around The Horn and has appeared on Highly Questionable and High Noon. She has a podcast called The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny, her beloved dog. Kimes is a co-host, along with Amanda Dobbins, of the Ringer's "Big Little Live" aftershow about the HBO series "Big Little Lies." In 2019, she was hired by the Los Angeles Rams to be a color commentator for their preseason football games.
Mina Kimes
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born September 8, 1985 (age 33)
Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
Education Yale University
Occupation Journalist
Mina Kimes is a Los Angeles-based American investigative journalist who specializes in business and sports reporting. A multiple award-winner, she has written for Fortune magazine, Bloomberg News, and ESPN.
Early life
Kimes is of Korean descent on her mother's side. She graduated summa cum laude from Yale with a B.A. in English.
Career
Kimes' first position after college was at Fortune Small Business Magazine in 2007. As a business journalist, she won awards from the New York Press Club, the National Press Club, and the Asian American Journalists Association, amongst other places. Her 2012 investigation entitled Bad to the Bone exposed the unauthorized use of a cement to repair bone tissue, with lethal consequences, for which she won the Henry R. Luce Award. The Columbia Journalism Review included her exposes among its business must-reads for 2012. In 2014, she received the Larry Birger Young Business Journalist Prize from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
She joined Bloomberg News in 2013 as an investigative reporter. Her profiles of business executives Doug Oberhelman of Caterpillar, in a piece titled King Kat, and Sears executive Eddie Lampert, in a piece titled The Sun Tzu at Sears, won her the Front Page Award for business reporting.
She was offered a position by ESPN editors after she wrote an essay on Tumblr about a "bond between herself and her dad and the Seattle Seahawks;" she is an avid fan of that team.She wrote about young sports superstars such as University of Houston basketball player Devonta Pollard, who got mixed up in a family dispute and, at one point, testified against his own mother. She has written profiles of NFL players Aaron Rodgers, Darrelle Revis, Antonio Brown, and Michael and Martellus Bennett, and wrote a feature on Korean League of Legends star Faker.
She is also an active panelist on Around The Horn and has appeared on Highly Questionable and High Noon. She has a podcast called The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny, her beloved dog. Kimes is a co-host, along with Amanda Dobbins, of the Ringer's "Big Little Live" aftershow about the HBO series "Big Little Lies." In 2019, she was hired by the Los Angeles Rams to be a color commentator for their preseason football games.
