Kansas City Star seeks a business reporter

The Kansas City Star is looking to hire a business reporter to work as part of its award-winning news staff.

This beat will include coverage of economic growth spurred by commercial, retail and residential development and company startups, particularly in the city’s blooming technology sectors.

But the main focus will be on people with jobs or those who want jobs as they grapple with globalization, income disparity, technology and downsizing.

Paychecks fuel spending, which, in turn, fuels the city’s growth and health. Jobs determine whether a population rises or falls.

Questions to consider: Which jobs are growing? Is there enough local talent to fill them? Which jobs are dying? Is there something else for those people to do? What companies are prospering? Which aren’t? How have some reinvented themselves?

To apply, go here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.