Longtime biz reporter Mark Davis leaving KC Star via buyout

Mark Davis

Longtime business reporter Mark Davis has accepted McClatchy’s buyout offer and is leaving the Kansas City Star, reports Hearne Christopher of KC Confidential.

Christopher writes, “The most notable journalist preparing to walk the plank: Mark Davis.

“In recent years the venerable reporter has ridden point on major business news stories about iconic Kansas City companies like Sprint, AMC and Hallmark.

“No mas…

“Davis has reportedly opted to take the 55-and-older, Star bucks farewell cash and run.

“Leaving relative newbie Steve Vockrodt – a refugee of the Kansas City Business Journal and Pitch – to help ride herd over what passes for local business news.

“Once upon a time there were no fewer than a dozen reporters and editors who rallied around the newspaper’s so-called business desk.”

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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.