Kim is teaching editor of Next Generation Newsroom, which launches in fall 2024 at Point Park University and will focus on producing daily enterprise reporting in Southwestern Pennsylvania for media outlets. It’s the type of news that we’ve served up less to the public as disruption in the industry has led media companies to close or reduce staff. But news focusing on government - at all levels - and schools are essential to helping people learn key information about where they live, and who leads their communities and schools.

In her career, Kim has worked with reporters covering crime, federal courts, politics from local to state to national, education, and health. She’s supervised election coverage for a daily regional news source - loves it, and even misses the cardboard pizza everyone snacked on after hours of waiting for election returns. She has also worked with journalists covering issues outside the U.S. She’s interviewed killers - sometimes before they were charged, elected leaders, and, people on the extremes of the political spectrum.

Kim was previously part owner of Postindustrial Media, a multimedia company that aimed to tell the stories of people working to build more equitable, sustainable, and economically strong communities in Postindustrial regions. Founded in Pittsburgh in 2018, the company has deep roots in the Rust Belt and Appalachia. Kim became CEO on Feb. 1, 2020 - when the company was less than two years old and about a month before COVID shutdowns. She left on Dec. 31, 2023.

As CEO, Kim guided every aspect of the young company’s day-to-day operations and helped further define the brand. She helped create an editorial code of ethics to emphasize the company’s allegiance to high-quality principles of journalism, and build trust with the audience. With an an emphasis on multimedia, the company published quarterly print magazines featuring original reporting, and was nominated or won awards for its photography, writing, and design. She also helped usher Season 1 of Extremely American, a podcast available on National Public Radio and now in its second season.

Under her tenure, Postindustrial’s custom audio podcasts created for businesses and organizations won local and national awards.