Journalist. Editor. Board member.
A leader with a passion for impact-driven projects
Kim leads and builds custom projects related to journalism and storytelling. She is presently helping to build Newsapalooza, a festival of local news Sept. 26-28, for the Center for Media Innovation at Point Park University. Newsapalooza will kick off the Next Generation Newsroom, a visionary project that seeks to fill gaps in local reporting, build pathways for journalists, and highlight the essential role of independent news to a community. Read more here. Go deeper with the white paper.
Kim also helps individuals and organizations produce podcasts, and has helped clients go from idea to award-winning shows. She also helps launch and expand news operations, or work through thorny problems.
Kim has spent more than 25 years entrusted with leading award-winning teams in the Fourth Estate, encountering many calamities along the way. So she can keep her cool. Most of the time. She has had the privilege of working with journalists covering community, city, county, state, national, and international news.
Kim grew up in Meadville, Pa., known as home of the first zipper manufacturing company.
Like millions of other families, hers arrived to the States seeking more opportunity in what was then, a boomtown.
She grew up working in family businesses with her uncle, who emphasized the value of hard work and community service in equal measure. “Go invent something. Go start a business,” one uncle said.
“We didn’t go through all this for nothing.”
Kim also serves on the board of directors for the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania, and as an advisory board member of Industry’s Humanitarian Support Alliance, both nonprofits. She is a member of the National Press Club, in Washington, D.C.
“People are often skeptical of ‘the media.’ But journalism is essential to help us become more informed citizens, understand how government spends our money, and make decisions about our lives.”
Do what you believe in doing
What is it like to work in the news business?
You might be surprised.