Mina Mugil Kimes (born September 8, 1985) is an American journalist who specializes in business and sports reporting. She has written forFortune,Bloomberg News, andESPN.[2][3][4] She is a senior writer atESPN and an analyst onNFL Live.[5]
Kimes's first position after college was atFortune Small Business Magazine in 2007.[2] 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.[13][14] Her 2012 investigation entitledBad to the Bone exposed the unauthorized use of cement to repair bone tissue, with lethal consequences, for which she won theHenry R. Luce Award.[2][15] TheColumbia Journalism Review included her exposés among its business must-reads for 2012.[16] In 2014, she received the Larry Birger Young Business Journalist Prize from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.[2]
She joinedBloomberg News in 2013 as an investigative reporter.[2] Her profiles of business executivesDoug Oberhelman ofCaterpillar, in a piece titledKing Kat, andSears executiveEddie Lampert, in a piece titledThe Sun Tzu at Sears, won her theFront Page Award for business reporting.[17]
From October 2019 until July 2020, Kimes hostedESPN Daily, a daily news podcast.[27][28][24] On June 30, 2020, Kimes was announced as an NFL analyst for ESPN's relaunch ofNFL Live for the2020 NFL season.[29]
Kimes was a co-host, along with Amanda Dobbins, ofThe Ringer'sBig Little Live after-show about theHBO seriesBig Little Lies.[31] She co-hostsLove is Kimes with Davis Dennis Jr, a show about the Netflix seriesLove is Blind.[32]
On November 29, 2020, Kimes helped celebrity chefDavid Chang become the first celebrity to win the $1,000,000 top prize for his charity, Southern Smoke Foundation, and the fourteenth overall million dollar winner onWho Wants to Be a Millionaire, along withAlan Yang as his supporter, via the phone-a-friend lifeline on the million-dollar question.[33]
Kimes married music executiveNick Sylvester in 2015. They live inLos Angeles with their dog Lenny.[34] In 2023, Kimes had her first child, a boy.[35][36]
^abcdefgKeith 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..."
^"The End of Oil?"(PDF). RetrievedDecember 10, 2014.Fortune Small Business's Mina Kimes ... Nellie Bly for her article "The End of Oil,"...
^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; ..."
^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, ..."
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