Kimi Yoshino is Managing Editor at The Washington Post, overseeing Features, Sports, Local, Investigations, and Data. She joined The Post in July 2025 from The Baltimore Banner, where she was founding editor-in-chief. Under her leadership, The Banner won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting and grew into Maryland’s largest newsroom and a national model for sustainable local journalism. Yoshino brings sharp editorial vision and a proven record of building ambitious, accountable, and impactful newsrooms. At The Banner, she led a team that broke critical stories while cultivating trust and readership across Maryland. Previously, she spent more than two decades at the Los Angeles Times, holding senior newsroom leadership roles, including managing editor overseeing digital, metro, business, sports, and features. She also helped lead coverage of corruption in Bell, CA, which earned the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.