Founding editor Kimi Yoshino to leave The Banner for The Washington Post

Founding editor Kimi Yoshino to leave The Banner for The Washington Post

Kimi Yoshino, who has led The Baltimore Banner for three and a half years as its first editor-in-chief, building it from a concept written on a sheet of paper into a Pulitzer Prize-winning news organization with a growing subscriber base, told her staff Thursday that she will leave her job to become a senior editor at The Washington Post.

Baltimore Banner editor Kimi Yoshino will move to Washington Post

Kimi Yoshino, who has led The Baltimore Banner as editor-in-chief for three-and-a-half years, including the newsroom’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of Baltimore’s opioid crisis, will step down to become a managing editor at The Washington Post.“Just as I was driven by the challenge to move to Baltimore to help save local news, I’m now excited to tackle another important mission,” Yoshino said in a Banner article. “I am eager to help reinvigor…

Kimi Yoshino, who has led The Baltimore Banner for 3.5 years as its first editor-in-chief, is joining The Washington Post as managing editor, starting July 7

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Washington Post hires Yoshino as ME

The Washington Post announced Thursday the hiring 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 […]