Media leader. Journalist. Board member.
A leader with a passion for impact-driven projects
Kim is assistant director of the Center for Media Innovation at Point Park University, which leads initiatives to innovate and support local news. Our work includes a newsroom that produces daily enterprise reporting for news outlets in Southwestern Pennsylvania. She helped to build the newsroom, which to fill gaps in local reporting, builds pathways for journalists, and highlights the essential role of independent news to a community. Read more here.
Kim previously owned Postindustrial, a news media company, and before that spent more than 25 years entrusted with leading award-winning teams in the Fourth Estate, experiencing both calamities and thrills along the way. Sometimes both in the same day. She has learned every problem has a solution and problems are often opportunities. She has had the privilege of working with journalists covering community, city, county, state, national, and international news and many, many interns.
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.
They emigrated to the U.S. from Sicily. “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?
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