Kimi Yoshino, 50

Editor in chief, The Baltimore Banner, Baltimore, Md.

First job in news:

Reporter, The Stockton Record, Stockton, Calif.

What are some of the most important lessons you have learned while working in news?

Stay curious. Always keep learning and evolving. When you make a mistake, learn from it. Remember who we’re serving: our readers and the people in our communities.

When you reflect on your career to date, what brings you the greatest sense of accomplishment?

This is hard. As an editor and manager, there are people I hired and nurtured who I think are doing great things in journalism today, and I like to think I had a small part in shaping their careers and helping them grow. When they succeed, I feel like a proud parent.

One of my all-time favorite jobs was as the business editor at the Los Angeles Times. It was my first time running a large team, shaping coverage, managing through challenges, and launching and landing big projects. My most recent job as EIC of The Baltimore Banner has been hard to beat. There have been multiple milestones and accomplishments already — first hires, first billboards and the first scoop. But the day we launched our site was one of the all-time best moments in my career.

What are your predictions for where news publishing/news media is heading?

I see the trend in nonprofit journalism continuing with more local news operations and more niche, issue-focused sites. The competition for people’s attention will continue to be fierce, and that will force traditional journalists and news outlets to experiment with storytelling formats and platforms while still delivering quality reporting.

} Kimi Yoshino, who made headlines by leaving her post as managing editor at the Los Angeles Times to take the position as editor in chief at The Baltimore Banner, invited residents to give her tours of their city as part of her deep dive into understanding the community.