Jinah Kim
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Jinah Kim is a Korean American reporter for NBC News and KNBC in Los Angeles, California. She is also President of the Los Angeles chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association.
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[edit] Background
Jinah Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea and immigrated to Los Angeles with her family when she was 6 years old. She grew up in Walnut, California. She attended UCLA, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
Her career in journalism began as the editor of her high school newspaper. She went on to write for the Daily Bruin while at UCLA. She interned at CBS News in New York City. Jinah has also served as the assistant editor of KAGRO, a national Korean American magazine.
[edit] Professional career
Kim's first full-time job in broadcast journalism came during her junior year at UCLA, when she began working as the weekend desk assistant and newswriter at KTLA in Los Angeles.
Kim moved on to KCCN, when it was a CBS affiliate, in Monterey, California, where she produced the 11 pm news. She then went on the report and anchor at KCBA, the FOX television station in Salinas, California.
In 1999, she became a reporter/anchor for KSWB-TV Channel 5 in San Diego, California.
In February, 2003, she moved to Denver, Colorado to work as a reporter and occasional anchor at KUSA-TV, Channel 9.
She is now a reporter for KNBC, NBC News Channel and MSNBC in Los Angeles, California.
[edit] Notables
- Jinah has a passion for languages and speaks, reads and writes German, Korean and Spanish.
- She was also Co-President of the Korean American Journalists Association.
- She was a media winner at the 8th annual Wirth Chair Awards while at KUSA-TV in Denver, for three segments on the significance of recycling (presented by the University of Colorado at Denver, Graduate School of Public Affairs and Health Sciences Center)
- Jinah was nominated for several Emmy awards and received two Golden Mikes, an Associated Press Award and RTNDA Award for her reporting.
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