KC Star retail reporter departs after 38 years

Joyce Smith, a reporter at the Kansas City Star covering restaurants and retail, is leaving the paper after more than 38 years.

Her CityScape column launched in 1989.

“I will continue to post some restaurant and retail news on social media during this transition,” she wrote on Twitter. “I also have started a longer project and a new volunteer gig.”

Smith attended the University of Kansas.

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.