Jinah Kim
Correspondent, NBC news and KNBC in Los Angeles
Co-owner, WorldWise Productions

Jinah Kim is currently a correspondent for NBC news
and for KNBC in Los Angeles. She is also the co-owner
of WorldWise Productions, a video production company
specializing in corporate and non-profit videos,
based in Los Angeles.
She is the president of the Asian American Journalists
Association’s Los Angeles chapter. She also sits on numerous
boards, including the ALS Association’s national
communications committee.

Ms. Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea and immigrated to
the U.S. with her family when she was six. She grew up
in the Los Angeles area and attended UCLA, where she
graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa, with a
BA in English Literature.

Jinah's journalism career began with her high school
newspaper, then the Daily Bruin at UCLA. She was sure
she wanted to become a newspaper reporter when she
decided to intern at CBS News in New York during
college. She got the broadcast bug and got her first
job at KTLA in Los Angeles as an assignment desk
assistant in the newsroom. She's also produced in
Monterey, reported and anchored in Salinas, San Diego
and most recently, in Denver.

Ms. Kim has a passion for languages and speaks, reads
and writes Korean, German and Spanish. Her other
passions include traveling around the world, reading
anything she can get her hands on, recycling,
literacy, ALS research and environmental causes.

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