Mina Mugil Kimes (born September 8, 1985) is an American journalist who specializes in business and sports reporting. She has written for Fortune, Bloomberg News, and ESPN.[2][3][4] She is a senior writer at
ESPN and an analyst on NFL Live.[5]
Kimes's first position after college was at Fortune 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 entitled Bad to the Bone exposed the unauthorized use of cement to repair bone tissue, with lethal consequences, for which she won the
Henry R. Luce Award.[2][15] The Columbia 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 joined Bloomberg News in 2013 as an investigative reporter.[2] Her profiles of business executives
Doug Oberhelman of
Caterpillar, in a piece titled King Kat, and
Sears executive
Eddie Lampert, in a piece titled The Sun Tzu at Sears, won her the
Front Page Award for business reporting.[17]
From October 2019 until July 2020, Kimes hosted ESPN Daily, a daily news podcast.[27][28][24] On June 30, 2020, Kimes was announced as an NFL analyst for ESPN's relaunch of NFL Live for the
2020 NFL season.[29]
Kimes was a co-host, along with Amanda Dobbins, of
The Ringer's "Big Little Live" after-show about the
HBO series Big Little Lies.[31]
In November 2020, Kimes helped celebrity chef
David Chang become the first celebrity to win the $1 million prize on
ABC'sWho Wants to Be a Millionaire as the phone-a-friend lifeline on the million-dollar question.[32]
Personal life
Kimes married music executive
Nick Sylvester in 2015. They live in
Los Angeles with their dog Lenny.[33] In July 2023, Kimes revealed on
Twitter at the
ESPYs that she was pregnant with her first child, a boy, who was born later that fall.[34][35]
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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). Retrieved December 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, ..."