Kansas City Star seeks business of health care reporter

The Kansas City Star’s breaking news team is seeking a business reporter focused on health care.

He or she would be expected to cover the health care business in Kansas City as well as health news and advice directed at consumers. Expertise in the Affordable Health Care Act and attempts to abolish or revamp it would be desirable.

This reporter must also have demonstrated competence in online journalism — quick writing, the robust use of social platforms, shooting basic video, and developing graphics.

While breaking news will be emphasized, enterprise spinning off the news will be encouraged. If interested, please contact Keith Chrostowski, The Star’s assistant managing editor for the news team, at [Click Here To Join] by Wednesday, February 1, 2017.

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.