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# LA Times’ Kimi Yoshino Named Editor for Baltimore Banner
- URL: https://capitolcommunicator.com/la-times-kimi-yoshino-named-editor-for-baltimore-banner/
- Published: 2021-10-26T17:16:49.000Z
- Updated: 2021-10-26T17:16:49.000Z
- Author: Jeffrey Davis
- Tags: Media, Maryland News, #Import 2026-10-08 18:51

**Stewart Bainum has hired Kimi Yoshino, a top editor from the Los Angeles Times, to help him launch the Baltimore Banner**, a nonprofit digital upstart dedicated to local coverage of the city and funded by $50 million of his own fortune, according[ to a report in *The Washington Post*](https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2021/10/26/baltimore-banner-kimi-yoshino-bainum/?ref=capitolcommunicator.com).

The plan, Bainum told the Post, is not to compete with *The Sun* but to cover the news in a city that he said has more than enough for one outlet. “Those reporters have their hands tied behind their back, and they’re still doing a good job,” he said, noting the [Sun won a Pulitzer in 2020](https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-sun-pulitzer-win-20200504-krx2g2jx35bdnfjr7mzwantwlm-story.html?ref=capitolcommunicator.com) for investigating corruption in the mayor’s office. “There’s a lot of damn talent there. And we just want to add to it.”

The 21-year veteran of *The LA Times* is tasked with building up a newsroom of roughly 50 journalists focused on local news and launching in 2022, with a goal of expanding in size the following year.

[The Times reported](https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-10-26/los-angeles-times-managing-editor-kimi-yoshino-named-baltimore-banner-editor?ref=capitolcommunicator.com) that Yoshino, 49, has been managing editor of *The Times* since April 2020, serving as the second-in-command of the newsroom alongside **Scott Kraft** and **Shani Hilton**. Together, Yoshino and Kraft, as co-managing editors, led The Times through the first half of 2021 while the search for the paper’s new executive editor, **Kevin Merida**, was underway.

Yoshino joined *The Times* in 2000 as a metro reporter for the Orange County bureau, following stints at the Fresno Bee and Stockton Record. Yoshino’s last day will be on Nov. 12, *The Times* reported.

*Photo: Venetoulis Institute*