- Jinah Kim
Jinah Kim is a
Korean American reporter for NBC News andKNBC inLos Angeles ,California . She is also President of the Los Angeles chapter of theAsian American Journalists Association . She is the Co-Founder of WorldWiseProductions.com.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 attendedUCLA , where she graduatedMagna Cum Laude andPhi Beta Kappa .Her career in journalism began as the editor of her high school newspaper. She went on to write for the Korea Times - English Edition and the
Daily Bruin while at UCLA. She interned atCBS News in New York City. Jinah has also served as the assistant editor of KAGRO, a national Korean American magazine.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 CBSaffiliate , inMonterey , California, where she produced the 11 pm news. She then went on the report and anchor atKCBA , the FOX television station in Salinas, California.In 1999, she became a reporter/fill-in anchor for
KSWB-TV Channel 5 inSan Diego , California. Just prior to that, she had a brief stint as a reporter at OCN in Orange County.In February, 2003, she moved to
Denver ,Colorado to work as a reporter and fill-in anchor atKUSA-TV , Channel 9.She is now a Correspondent for KNBC, NBC News Channel and MSNBC in Los Angeles, California.
Notables
*Jinah has a passion for languages and speaks, reads and writes German, Korean and Spanish.
*She is a National Board Member of the ALS Association.
*She was also national Co-President of theKorean 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.External links
* [http://www.worldwiseproductions.com]
* [http://www.aaja-la.org/chapterboard/ AAJA bio]
* [http://www.asianamerican.net/bios/Kim-Jinah.html AsianAmerican.net bio]
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