KC Food Insider
 McClatchy | |
 United States, Missouri, Kansas City | |
 Feb 14, 2026 | |
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The Kansas City Star, winner of nine Pulitzer Prizes, is seeking a personable, audience-oriented journalist to become our KC Restaurant Guide. Kansas City loves to eat. It’s at the center of our “going out” plans, a huge part of our entertainment. And we have a remarkable award-winning restaurant scene that offers some of the best meals you can find anywhere. It’s not just barbecue — really. And almost as much as we love to eat, we love to talk about our food: What’s the best? Why don’t we have…? Whatever happened to…? Where can I find…? This Kansas City reporter will be tasked with answering all those questions and more, joining our existing restaurants and retail reporter to expand our coverage of this vibrant food scene and our engagement with these voracious readers. Stories might include openings and closings, high-utility lists, Q&As with readers, behind-the-scenes features, first-person pieces and nuanced discussions of how KC’s food scene compares to others. The successful candidate will bring creativity to their storytelling, an ability to listen to our audience, and a voice that makes Kansas Citians want to connect with them. This reporter will be expected to research and write compelling stories that serve our readers’ needs, especially helping them find the food they want and offering perspective on the city’s food offerings. You’ll be expected to follow the latest news and conversation in local dining, connect with sources in the industry and continuously pitch new ideas. Direct interaction with our audience will be a huge part of the job, including filming and appearing in videos for our website and social platforms; sharing responsibility for a weekly newsletter; and talking to locals in person and virtually about their needs and questions, including at Star events. We are looking for an enthusiastic reporter who works collaboratively with editors, other reporters, visual journalists and our audience team to tell essential local stories across platforms that grow and engage our local audience and build long-term loyalty among our subscribers. You’ll join a reporting team that is fun, creative, and always looking for new ways to connect and inform with our diverse audience across platforms. The newsroom you’ll join is deeply committed to listening to, engaging with and meeting the needs of our neighbors across the Kansas City metro area. Kansas City is a vibrant, large city with a high quality of life – replete with iconic professional sports teams and a world-class arts scene – and a low cost of living. It’s a fantastic place to put down roots, and this job offers the chance to contribute to its future. Mc Clatchy Media’s journalists are expected to take advantage of opportunities to ethically harness and leverage artificial intelligence and other automation to enhance and elevate their work and to find efficiencies that free them to focus on source-building and high-quality, deeply reported journalism. In this role, you will need to:
The successful candidate should meet many of the following requirements:
What we’ll bring: As a journalist at Mc Clatchy, you will join a supportive, flexible, collaborative team. Mc Clatchy strives to be an employer of choice, and our benefits package is made with this goal in mind. With a focus on health, well-being, wealth and daily life, our package options include health care coverage for employees and their families, financial protection from expected and unexpected expenses, multiple no-cost wellness resources and even coverage for four-legged friends. Our overall benefits package also includes a 401(k) with employer match, competitive paid time off and corporate holidays, and a variety of mental health benefits. With an excellent support team and with focus on your well-being as a top corporate strategy, Mc Clatchy provides benefits to support you and your family in achieving your health and wellness goals. For more information on Mc Clatchy's benefit plan, please visit Mc Clatchy Livewell.com. To apply, include a persuasive cover letter, your resume and four to six examples of your best work. About the Mc Clatchy Media Company The Mc Clatchy Media Company features a portfolio of vibrant and trusted news, lifestyle, entertainment brands and a robust retail distribution network. Our iconic local news brands such as the Miami Herald, The Kansas City Star and The Sacramento Bee, have collectively earned a total of 57 Pulitzer prizes and are complemented by popular lifestyle and entertainment brands such as Us Weekly and Woman’s World. Together, our brands reach more than 100 million unique visitors a month,The Mc Clatchy Retail Network, our distribution and logistics arm, offers delivery to more than 56,000 retail locations weekly. #LI-RB1 recblid 70nckpwmnm0bdafki4ey7zzst5fo7a | |