Kim Gamel

Kim Gamel is managing editor and a solutions journalism advocate at Honolulu Civil Beat. She joined the nonprofit news site in November 2020. Kim came to Hawaii after many years abroad, most recently in Seoul covering the Korean Peninsula for the military newspaper Stars and Stripes. Previously, she was a foreign correspondent with The Associated Press with postings in the Middle East and Europe. A native of Boise, Idaho, Kim was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan from 2014-15. It was there that she became passionate about local news as a way to engage and inform the community. She encourages reporters to do solutions stories by showing how they maximize impact, empower people and hold those in power accountable by showing how things can be done better.