Opinion Writer

The Kansas City Star, winner of nine Pulitzer Prizes, is seeking an experienced journalist with a reporter’s eye for detail and a writer’s grace to develop a unique and memorable style as the newest member of our editorial board. We’re looking for an exceptional writer who is equally at home reporting project-level enterprise and writing quickly off the news with both accuracy and flair. Our writers have an ear for storytelling and eye for the big and small things our community is buzzing about. We believe opinion journalism – especially the sustained local community-oriented commentary uniquely offered by a fully staffed editorial board such as ours – is essential to the readers it serves. It also is a powerful advantage in the fight for readers’ attention and subscriptions in the always evolving frontier of digital-first journalism. You’ll join a team of three editorial writers and three editors who together routinely break news and juggle deeply-reported projects with fast-breaking reactions to important news. We believe our advocacy matters – a lot – to the quality of life in our region, which is centered in Kansas City and extends throughout Kansas and Missouri.