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HyoJung Kim

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HyoJung Kim

HyoJung Kim is a graduate student at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Media and Integrated Marketing Communications, where she is specializing in Politics, Policy and Foreign Affairs. She reported in South Korea as a print reporter, Panama as a multimedia journalist and Chicago as a broadcast journalist. She interned at Chicago's WGN-TV before she joined Medill’s Washington, D.C., bureau. She also worked for Hearst Television's National Investigative Unit as a researcher. HyoJung graduated from Northwestern in 2019, where she studied journalism with a concentration in broadcast and multimedia, and theatre with a concentration in performance. She was a part of a nationally-recognized investigative journalism project, the Medill Justice Project, and executive producer of college Emmy-winning Northwestern News Network. She primarily covers health, science and technology for the project.


Latest stories

Medill Weekly – 06/05/20

Watch our reporters talk about the top stories of the week! In this week’s video: HyoJung Kim, Bing Xiao and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn talk about Wuhan residents who survived through the peak of the pandemic… Read Story

Medill Weekly – 05/29/20

Fact or False? See if you can verify top rumors of the week! In this week’s video: HyoJung Kim examines multiple claims fact-checked by our reporters. Did the Obama administration fail to leave a game… Read Story

Medill Weekly – 05/22/20

Watch our reporters talk about the top stories of the week! In this week’s video: HyoJung Kim, Kelly Cannon and Brian Johnson talk about Wisconsin’s government officials considering complete absentee voting for November’s general election… Read Story

Medill Weekly – 05/15/20

Watch our reporters talk about the top stories of the week! In this week’s video: HyoJung Kim, Chiara Vercellone and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn talk about the changed lifestyle of an Italian surgeon and whether you… Read Story

Medill Weekly – 05/08/20

Watch our reporters talk about the top stories of the week! In this week’s video: HyoJung Kim, Mark Satter, Brian Johnson and Soram Cheon talk about the election tracker, the history of quarantine resistance and… Read Story

Medill Weekly – 05/01/20

Fact or False? See if you can verify top rumors of the week! In this week’s video: HyoJung Kim examines multiple claims fact-checked by our reporters. Do you need to shower every time after you… Read Story

Medill Weekly – 04/24/20

Watch our reporters talk about the top stories of the week! In this week’s video: HyoJung Kim, Chiara Vercellone, Piper Hudspeth Blackburn and Kelly Cannon talk about the new normal after the pandemic, anti-mask culture… Read Story

Medill Weekly – 04/17/20

Watch our reporters talk about the top stories of the week! In this week’s video: HyoJung Kim, Bing Xiao and Soram Cheon talk about the Paycheck Protection Program, a provision of CARES Act offering forgivable… Read Story

Medill Weekly – 04/10/20

Watch our reporters talk about the top stories of the week! In this week’s video: HyoJung Kim, Chiara Vercellone, Sara Wilson and Joe Snell talk about the impact of coronavirus on non-essential medical staff, AP… Read Story

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