Mina Kimes
Mina Kimes
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| Born | September 8, 1985 |
| Education | Yale University[2] |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Spouse(s) | Nick Sylvester (m. 2014) |
Mina Kimes is a Los Angeles-based American investigative journalist who specializes in business and sports reporting. A multiple award-winner, she has written for Fortune magazine, Bloomberg News, and ESPN.[3][4][5][6][7][8]
Mina Kimes | |
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| Born | September 8, 1985 |
| Education | Yale University[2] |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Spouse(s) | Nick Sylvester (m. 2014) |
Early life
Career
Kimes' first position after college was at Fortune Small Business Magazine in 2007.[3] As a business journalist, she won awards from the New York Press Club, the National Press Club, and the Asian American Journalists Association, amongst other places.[11][12] 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][13] The Columbia Journalism Review included her exposes among its business must-reads for 2012.[14] In 2014, she received the Larry Birger Young Business Journalist Prize from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.[3]
She joined Bloomberg News in 2013 as an investigative 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.[15]
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.[16][17][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 has written profiles of NFL players Aaron Rodgers, Darrelle Revis, Antonio Brown, Baker Mayfield, and Michael and Martellus Bennett, and wrote a feature on Korean League of Legends star Faker.[5][21][22]
She is also an active panelist on Around The Horn and has appeared on Highly Questionable and High Noon. She has a podcast called The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny, her beloved dog. Kimes is a co-host, along with Amanda Dobbins, of the Ringer's "Big Little Live" aftershow about the HBO series "Big Little Lies." In 2019, she was hired by the Los Angeles Rams to be a color commentator for their preseason football games.[23]