Executive Editor

McClatchy is seeking a creative, results-driven executive editor to lead one of America’s great metro newsrooms – The Kansas City Star. The leader of this Pulitzer Prize-winning organization will be tasked with achieving the highest ambitions of journalism, producing work of distinction and excellence that is relentlessly local in approach and consistently in service of community. An opportunity at McClatchy is without peer in digital media, as our newsrooms assertively and rapidly extend the only local media playbook in America that is delivering growth. The Executive Editor for The Kansas City Star must thrive in a culture of adaptive innovation, purposeful experimentation and growth-oriented change. The person in this role will work with a talented team of journalists to reach a community of readers, viewers and listeners in the two-state Kansas City area that is diverse ethnically, culturally and ideologically. The challenge in this role is to accelerate The Star’s digital transition with urgency, leveraging a storied brand and high-impact newsroom into a sustainable news operation that consistently creates value for our local audience by producing breaking news, service journalism and accountability journalism – across all beats and coverage areas – that is first and best on the most important issues to the many parts of the local community we serve. The successful candidate must be a thoughtful leader with experience in ongoing transformation, someone able to approach the role with fresh ideas on how to rally a team around the vision of audience-centered journalism.