Washington Post Names New San Francisco Bureau Chief

<p><b>Washington Post Business Editor Lori Montgomery <&sol;b>announced that <strong>Yun-Hee Kim<&sol;strong> has been promoted to Tech Editor for Corporate and Personal Technology&comma; an expanded role overseeing coverage of Silicon Valley’s biggest tech companies – including Apple&comma; Amazon&comma; Google and Microsoft – as well as the personal tech team in San Francisco and New York&period; This role serves as San Francisco bureau chief&comma; managing a growing outpost that now includes more than a dozen reporters&comma; columnists and editors&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Since joining The Post as Personal Tech Editor in 2021&comma; Yun-Hee &lpar;photo above&rpar; has skillfully covered Silicon Valley&comma; delivering newsy scoops&comma; insightful features&comma; reader-friendly explainers&comma; interactive quizzes and engaging videos&period; As founding editor of the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;washingtonpost&period;com&sol;personal-tech&sol;&quest;itid&equals;lk&lowbar;inline&lowbar;manual&lowbar;5" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Help Desk<&sol;a>&comma; the Post&&num;8217&semi;s destination for personal tech coverage&comma; Yun-Hee has guided an ambitious project on tech and loneliness&comma; a&period;k&period;a&period;&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;washingtonpost&period;com&sol;technology&sol;2023&sol;04&sol;11&sol;technology-loneliness-role&sol;&quest;itid&equals;lk&lowbar;inline&lowbar;manual&lowbar;5" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Plugged in&comma; Left Out&semi;”<&sol;a> a series on the transformational shifts in the American workplace&comma; a&period;k&period;a&period;&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;washingtonpost&period;com&sol;technology&sol;interactive&sol;2023&sol;ai-jobs-workplace&sol;&quest;itid&equals;lk&lowbar;inline&lowbar;manual&lowbar;6&amp&semi;itid&equals;lk&lowbar;inline&lowbar;manual&lowbar;5" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Work&colon; Reimagined&semi;”<&sol;a> and columnist Geoffrey Fowler’s creative investigations into <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;washingtonpost&period;com&sol;technology&sol;2023&sol;03&sol;14&sol;snapchat-myai&sol;&quest;itid&equals;lk&lowbar;inline&lowbar;manual&lowbar;5" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">artificial intelligence<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;washingtonpost&period;com&sol;technology&sol;2023&sol;12&sol;31&sol;tesla-autopilot-recall-test&sol;&quest;itid&equals;lk&lowbar;inline&lowbar;manual&lowbar;5" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Tesla’s Autopilot<&sol;a> and <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;washingtonpost&period;com&sol;technology&sol;2024&sol;01&sol;30&sol;apple-vision-pro-privacy&sol;&quest;itid&equals;lk&lowbar;inline&lowbar;manual&lowbar;5" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">other technologies<&sol;a>&period; In 2022&comma; Yun-Hee launched Shira Ovide&&num;8217&semi;s <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;washingtonpost&period;com&sol;technology&sol;2023&sol;11&sol;27&sol;namedrop-iphone-ios17-safety&sol;&quest;itid&equals;lk&lowbar;inline&lowbar;manual&lowbar;5" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Tech Friend&comma;”<&sol;a> a sharp-witted&comma; slightly grumpy&comma; twice-weekly newsletter that helps readers make sense of the latest tech news and developments&period; Most recently&comma; Yun-Hee led news coverage of the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;washingtonpost&period;com&sol;technology&sol;2023&sol;11&sol;18&sol;sam-altman-ilya-sutskever-openai&sol;&quest;itid&equals;lk&lowbar;inline&lowbar;manual&lowbar;5" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">boardroom chaos at OpenAI&comma;<&sol;a> working virtually around the clock to chronicle the whirlwind ouster and reinstatement of Sam Altman as CEO&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir&equals;"null" data-testid&equals;"drop-cap-letter" data-el&equals;"text">Before coming to The Post&comma; Yun-Hee spent more than two decades at the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones&comma; where she was a reporter and editor in New York&comma; Hong Kong and Seoul covering technology and business&comma; and leading news teams that covered Asia’s booming technology industry&comma; the rise of Samsung and China’s internet giants&period; At the Journal&comma; Yun-Hee also led an expansion into live tech events&comma; serving as editorial director for the flagship &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;WSJ Tech Live” and conducting onstage interviews with numerous tech newsmakers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir&equals;"null" data-testid&equals;"drop-cap-letter" data-el&equals;"text">Born in Paris and educated in Paris&comma; Seoul&comma; Toronto and New York&comma; Yun-Hee holds a Master of Science degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism&period; A third-culture kid who lived on three continents by the age of eight&comma; Yun-Hee lives in San Francisco and enjoys traveling with her family and singing in her church choir&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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