Kimi Yoshino is an American journalist and the editor-in-chief of the ''Baltimore Banner'', a nonprofit publication funded by Baltimore-area hotel magnate Stewart Bainum Jr.

Biography

Yoshino worked at the ''Stockton Record'' and the ''Fresno Bee'' before joining the ''

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'' in 2000. She helped develop the publication's most popular blog, ''L.A. Now.'' Yoshino reported on unethical practices at a fertility clinic in the

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, and on dangerous rides at

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. Yoshino was the guiding editor of an investigative story about the Bell corruption scandal that won a Pulitzer Gold Medal in 2011 for

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. She met her husband, a translator, while working in Iraq. She became the chief editor of Business and Finance for the ''L.A. Times'' in 2014. In 2015 and 2016, Yoshino received awards from the

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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. It has been speculated by fellow staff members that D’Vorkin believed Yoshino had leaked unflattering audio recordings of D'Vorkin in meetings to ''

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'' and ''

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'', and possibly that Yoshino had been involved in a scathing piece on D'Vorkin published in the ''

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'' the day before her firing. It's also suspected the suspension may have been the result of a critical story about Disneyland which had been edited by Yoshino and caused public relations problems for D'Vorkin. She has also contributed to the ''

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'', ''Nieman Lab'', the ''

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'', the ''Stockton Record'' and the ''Fresno Bee''.

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