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Kimi Yoshino, founding editor-in-chief of The Baltimore Banner, joins WaPo as managing editor

Capitol CommunicatorMay 22, 20251 min read

The Washington Post announced the addition of Kimi Yoshino as Managing Editor overseeing Features, Sports, Local, Investigations and Data.

According to a release, 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 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.”

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