Mina Kimes

Born Mina Mugil Kimes
(1985-09-08) September 8, 1985
Occupation Investigative journalist
Language English
Nationality American
Education Yale University
Subjects Business, sports
Notable awards Nellie Bly Cub Reporter Award (2008)[1][2]
Henry R. Luce Award (2010)[3]
Person to Watch list (2012)[3]
Sandy Hume Memorial Award (2012)[4][5]
Columbia Journalism Must-reads (2012)[6]
AAJA National Award (2012)[7][8]
Outstanding Story (2013)[9]
Front Page Award (2013)[10][11]
National Headliner Award (2013)
Larry Birger Prize (2014)[3][12]

Mina Mugil Kimes[13] is a Brooklyn-based American investigative journalist who specializes in business and sports reporting and who has written for Fortune, Bloomberg, and ESPN.[3][14][15]

Kimes, the daughter of an Air Force pilot, graduated summa cum laude from Yale with a B.A. in English.[3] She is of Korean descent, through her mother.[16][17] Her first position after college was at Fortune Magazine in 2008.[3] Her piece The End of Oil? profiled a New Jersey-based inventor and entrepreneur who claimed to have discovered a method to convert water into energy; she won the New York Press Club's Nellie Bly Cub Reporter Award as a result.[1][2] Her 2012 investigation entitled Bad to the Bone exposed the unauthorized use of a cement to repair bone tissue, with lethal consequences, for which she won the Henry R. Luce Award.[3][9] The Columbia Journalism Review included her exposes among its business must-reads for 2012.[6] She was on the Media Industry Newsletter’s Person to Watch list in 2012.[3]

She joined Bloomberg News in 2013 as an enterprise reporter.[3] Her profiles of business executives Doug Oberhelman of Caterpillar, in a piece titled King Kat, and Sears executive Eddie Lampert, in a piece titled The Sun Tzu at Sears, won her the Front Page Award for business reporting.[11]

She was offered a position by ESPN editors after she wrote an essay on Tumblr about a "bond between herself and her dad and the Seattle Seahawks;"[3] she is an avid fan of that team.[18] She wrote about young sports superstars[19] such as University of Houston basketball player Devonta Pollard, who got mixed up in a family dispute and, at one point, testified against his own mother.[20] She wrote about football star Ray Rice, "tattoos and fandom", the underrepresentation of women in executive positions in Major League Baseball, and other subjects.[15] She appeared as a guest on sports-related broadcasts.[21] In 2015, she was hired to write a column for ESPN The Magazine.[14]

References

  1. 1 2 "NY Press Club Awards Recognize Times' David Barstow, BusinessWeek". mediabistro. 2009-05-20. Retrieved 2014-12-10.
  2. 1 2 "The End of Oil?" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-12-10. Fortune Small Business‘s Mina Kimes ... Nellie Bly for her article “The End of Oil,”...
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Keith J. Kelly, May 7, 2014, New York Post, ESPN drafts Bloomberg’s Mina Kimes, Retrieved July 25, 2015, "...Although the 28-year-old writer snagged a fair number of awards for investigative business stories..."
  4. ↑ [http://www.press.org/news-multimedia/news/bloomberg-news-arizona-republic-associated-press-wgbh-tv-among-press-club-winne>> "Bloomberg News, Arizona Republic, Associated Press, WGBH-TV among Press Club winners"].
  5. ↑ Note: honorable mention from the National Press Club, for Excellence in Political Journalism
  6. 1 2 "Must-reads of 2012: business".
  7. ↑ Note:Unlimited Subject Matter, Print
  8. ↑ "Meet the 2012 AAJA National Journalism Award Winners".
  9. 1 2 Keith J. Kelly, April 12, 2013, New York Post, Sign of the Time: Sour notes at Luce Awards, Retrieved July 25, 2015, "...magazine winners were announced, including Outstanding Story by Fortune’s Mina Kimes (now with Bloomberg) for “Bad to the Bone,” about the unauthorized use of a bone cement, which killed patients; ..."
  10. ↑ Note: for Business Reporting
  11. 1 2 Newswomen's Club of New York, Front Page Awards Recognize New York Newswomen: Newswomen’s Club of New York to Present Awards at November Gala, Retrieved August 3, 2015, "...Business Reporting: Mina Kimes, Bloomberg News...“King Cat” and “The Sun Tzu at Sears” .... The Front Page Awards honor journalistic excellence by newswomen in newspapers, television, wire services, photography, online, magazines, and radio....."
  12. ↑ "Bloomberg's Mina Kimes wins first Birger Award for Young Business Journalists".
  13. ↑ Yale
  14. 1 2 Christine Zosche, May 8, 2014, Adweek Magazine, ESPN Drafts Bloomberg's Mina Kimes, Retrieved July 25, 2015, "...ESPN The Magazine ... has raided Bloomberg News to hire the young, award-winning Mina Kimes ... working on narrative and investigative pieces...."
  15. 1 2 Joanna Demkiewicz, October 8, 2014, Riveter Magazine, Q&A with Mina Kimes, staff writer for ESPN: ESPN’S NEW COLUMNIST TALKS SPORTS WRITING AND UNDERDOGS, Retrieved July 26, 2015, "... In 2009, she won the Nellie Bly Cub Reporter Award, ... sports writing exclusively... written on Ray Rice, tattoos and fandom and MLB’s executive gender whoopsie...."
  16. ↑ Joanna Demkiewicz, October 8, 2014, Riveter Magazine, Q&A with Mina Kimes, staff writer for ESPN: ESPN’S NEW COLUMNIST TALKS SPORTS WRITING AND UNDERDOGS, Retrieved October 4, 2016, "... And what makes me the happiest? Good Korean food; I’m Korean..."
  17. ↑ Mina Kimes, Tumblr, Papas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Niner Fans, Retrieved October 4, 2016
  18. ↑ "Me, My Father, and Russell Wilson".
  19. ↑ Steve Mullis, June 15, 2015, NPR, Love, Coding, Yuccies, And The 'NPR Sound', Retrieved July 25, 2015, "... This piece by Mina Kimes of ESPN does a fantastic job of illustrating who these young superstars are, ..."
  20. ↑ Mina Kimes, October 30, 2014, ESPN The Magazine, Free To Go: Devonta Pollard's mother was his best friend and coach. Now she's in prison for kidnapping, and he's one of the witnesses who testified against her. As the former top recruit starts over in Houston, can he learn to play for himself?, Retrieved July 26, 2015
  21. ↑ Hank Blogger, May 6, 2015, Seattle Sun Times, PODCAST: Interview With Mina Kimes, Senior Writer/Columnist At ESPN The Magazine, Retrieved July 25, 2015, "...I invited Mina Kimes, ... unabashed Seahawks fan ... both as an accomplished investigative journalist and as a fan...."
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