The Washington Post today announced the addition of Kimi Yoshino as managing editor overseeing Features, Sports, Local, Investigations and Data.
Yoshino is joining The Post from The Baltimore Banner, where she currently serves as founding editor-in-chief. In the three and a half years of her leadership, The Banner has evolved into the largest newsroom in the state, with paid subscribers in every Maryland county. Earlier this month, The Banner was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for groundbreaking local journalism that exposed Baltimore as the deadliest large city in the nation for drug overdoses.
“I’m thrilled for The Post to benefit from Kimi’s sharp editorial eye and tenacious entrepreneurial spirit,” said Matt Murray, executive editor of The Post. “Paired with our commitment to journalistic excellence, her leadership will be key as we build our next newsroom chapter.”
“I'm honored to join The Washington Post and help reinvigorate this essential and vital institution,” said Yoshino. “I have loved my job building the incredible team at The Baltimore Banner and forging a path for how local news can be sustainable. Only an opportunity like this at The Post could coax me from that mission, and I am excited to get started.”
Yoshino’s hire rounds out Murray’s leadership team, which includes Managing Editors Jason Anders, Liz Seymour and Peter Spiegel. Anders, former deputy editor-in-chief for The Wall Street Journal, was announced earlier this month, and Spiegel, former U.S. managing editor for The Financial Times, was announced in January.
Yoshino will begin at The Post on July 7, reporting to Murray.
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