Former Deputy News Editor
The Verge's former Deputy News Editor Kim Lyons is a Pittsburgh-based journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, where she was the first-ever digital news editor. She's a fan of coffee, hockey, and noise-canceling headphones.
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