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Mina Kimes Loud
Born (1985-09-08) September 8, 1985 (age 39)
Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.[1]
EducationYale University[2]
OccupationJournalist
SpouseZeante' Loud (m. 2014)

Mina Kimes Loud 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]

Early life

Kimes is of Korean descent on her mother's side.[9][10] She graduated summa cum laude from Yale with a B.A. in English.[3]

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]

References

  1. ^ Kimes, Mina [@minakimes] (July 8, 2016). "1995 Orange Bowl--Tommie Frazier leading Nebraska's comeback (I was born in Omaha so I rooted for the Huskers)" (Tweet). Retrieved July 31, 2018 – via Twitter.
  2. ^ "Senior Inductees - Yale Phi Beta Kappa". pbk.yalecollege.yale.edu.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g 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. ^ 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...."
  5. ^ a b 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...."
  6. ^ TV Over Mind, January 2019, 10 Things You Didn’t Know about Mina Kimes, Retrieved March 23, 2019
  7. ^ Debbie Emery, February 3, 2019, The Wrap, Super Bowl LIII Is ‘About Experience vs Youth,’ ESPN’s Mina Kimes and Dianna Russini Say, Retrieved March 22, 2019
  8. ^ Shlomo Sprung, May 2, 2018, Awful Announcing, ESPN’s Mina Kimes is thriving in a multi-platform role at the network, Retrieved March 22, 2019
  9. ^ 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..."
  10. ^ Mina Kimes, Tumblr, Papas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Niner Fans, Retrieved October 4, 2016
  11. ^ "NY Press Club Awards Recognize Times' David Barstow, BusinessWeek". mediabistro. 2009-05-20. Retrieved 2014-12-10.
  12. ^ "The End of Oil?" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-12-10. Fortune Small Business's Mina Kimes ... Nellie Bly for her article "The End of Oil,"...
  13. ^ 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; ..."
  14. ^ "Must-reads of 2012: business".
  15. ^ 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 Archived 2015-07-21 at the Wayback Machine, 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....."
  16. ^ "Me, My Father, and Russell Wilson".
  17. ^ 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...."
  18. ^ Brent Stecker, January 8, 2019, MyNorthwest, ESPN’s Mina Kimes debates Brock & Salk on whether Seahawks should have thrown more, Retrieved March 22, 2019
  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. ^ "From The Mag: The Unkillable Demon King". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
  22. ^ "Baker Mayfield isn't afraid of the hype".
  23. ^ Feldman, Jacob (August 1, 2019). "ESPN's Mina Kimes Will Be Preseason Analyst for the Los Angeles Rams". SI.com. Retrieved August 17, 2019.
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