Media
Perhaps Kansas Citians have so many media choices because more than half of us live in the Show-Me State. Our need-to-know mentality can be appeased through a breathtaking variety of ways, including a daily newspaper, a handful of weeklies, 10 television stations, 20 FM and 23 AM radio stations, and a growing list of public interest Web sites. And whatever your livelihood or hobby, from golf to computers, fine dining to fitness, chances are there’s a special-interest publication to help you do it better, find out where to enjoy it, or at least commune with others who share your passion.
Following are some of our more interesting means of communicating, listed by category.
1. The Examiner
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Media
Telephone: (816) 254-8600
Address: 410 S. Liberty
Description: This newspaper serves the towns of Independence, Blue Springs, and Grain Valley. Published Tues through Sat.
2. The Kansas City Star
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Media
Telephone: (816) 234-7827
Address: 1729 Grand
Description: Although the Star is the only daily newspaper that serves the entire metroplex, it has never used its “only game in town” status to deliver less-than-stellar reporting. It mirrors our town’s tragedies and triumphs with insight and depth. The Thursday Preview provides a week’s worth of entertainment and arts coverage throughout the region. The Sunday Star Magazine brings us profiles of people, places, and events in our area worth a closer look.
3. The Olathe Daily News
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Media
Telephone: (913) 764-2211
Address: 514 S. Kansas
Description: This community paper is the place to find news about local schools, business, and social events in the booming southwest region of the metroplex. It’s published on Wed and Sat.
4. The Business Journal
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Media
Telephone: (816) 421-5900
Address: 1100 Main St., Suite 210
Description: Kansas City’s edition of American City Business Journals Inc. is delivered to nearly 11,000 offices each Friday. Its editorial focus—banking, sales and marketing, business owner profiles, growth strategies—is geared to decision makers in companies with fewer than 100 employees.
5. The Call
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Media
Telephone: (816) 842-3804
Address: 1715 E. 18th St.
Description: “We call it like it is” was the motto of Chester A. Franklin, an ambitious businessman and community activist who founded one of the nation’s most respected African-American papers in 1919. The paper quickly developed a reputation as an advocate for social justice, with articles about lynchings, police brutality, segregation, and discrimination in housing and employment.
6. The Independent
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Media
Telephone: (816) 471-2800
Address: 4233 Roanoke Rd.
Description: If you’re anyone in Kansas City society, your engagement, wedding, and birth announcements will have been covered by the city’s oldest magazine; if your last name appears on a street sign, building, or museum anywhere in town, chances are your photo accompanied the write-up. Since 1899 the city’s crème de la crème have turned these oversized black-and-white pages to see who wore what designer’s gown to the latest ball or to muse about gentle gossip in “Over My Shoulder.” The readership represents Kansas City’s most influential, active, and civic-minded citizens . . . and certainly some of its most affluent. The Independent arrives in polished brass mailboxes on Saturday morning 45 times a year and is available at a select number of newsstands.
7. The Leaven
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Media
Telephone: (913) 721-1570
Address: 12615 Parallel Pkwy.
Description: The weekly newspaper of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas is distributed free to families who belong to Catholic parishes throughout Wyandotte, Johnson, and Leavenworth Counties. Each issue covers national and local news, book reviews, and a calendar that lists upcoming social and educational events, retreats, and meetings.
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Media
Address: 1701 Main St.
9. Ingram’S
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Media
Telephone: (816) 842-9994
Address: 2049 Wyandotte St.
Description: For more than a century this monthly, and its predecessor, Corporate Report, has been a staple among area business leaders. The magazine does a fine job at promoting Kansas City’s strengths by profiling a geographical portion of the city including schools, economic growth, and real estate options. There’s stiff competition to make the magazine’s annual Corporate Report 100, a list of Kansas City’s fastest-growing companies, and perhaps even tougher competition for the annual best-of survey published each August.
10. Kc Business
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Media
Telephone: (913) 894-6923
Address: 7101 College Blvd.
Description: Here’s where to find the city’s movers and shakers, the leaders who shape the metro. The editorial delves into the “why” beyond just the “who.” Along with covering the business side of our town, this monthly publication takes a look at why we all work so hard; it features lifestyle elements such as fashion, cars, and entertaining. Annual must-reads include the list of Influential Women and KC Business Rising Stars.
11. Kc Magazine
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Media
Telephone: (913) 894-6923
Address: 7101 College Blvd.
Description: Every city has one: a glossy magazine that celebrates the region’s most interesting people and places. Published monthly, each issue offers late-breaking takes on around-town happenings, profiles of hometown celebrities, tips on making your space more livable, and handy guides to restaurants and events. Naturally it showcases the most glittering parties in town, giving readers a “who-wore-what” replay. Once a year the magazine publishes the Best of Kansas City survey in which community readers provide their own favorites along with readers’ top picks.
12. Kansas City Homes And Gardens
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Media
Telephone: (913) 648-5757
Address: 4121 W. 83rd St.
Description: The fact that Kansas City can support two home and garden magazines is testament to our appreciation for graceful living, lovely gardens, and gracious entertaining. This magazine also has a lake living section to appease the hundreds of residents who spend summer weekends at the Lake of the Ozarks, four hours south of Kansas City.
13. Camp
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Media
Address: 1600 Genessee, Suite 525
Description: A print and online resource for the local (and growing) lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, Camp covers arts and entertainment, previews upcoming events such as the Gay Pride Parade, and touches on health and social issues. The publication also offers a roster of businesses that cater to and support this thriving group. Reporters also sign in on travel destinations that are gay friendly. The tabloid is available at bookstands and musical venues throughout the city.
14. Dos Mundos
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Media
Telephone: (816) 221-4747
Description: Dos Mundos, or Two Worlds, has provided a bilingual forum for Kansas City’s vibrant and growing Hispanic population since 1981; 80 to 90 percent of the information is translated. The readership is diverse: Of the more than 125,000 Hispanics living in the Kansas City metropolitan area, only about 60 percent are of Mexican origin. The remainder are mostly Puerto Ricans and Cubans. Along with national news, Dos Mundos covers local news, sports, and entertainment and provides a much-needed focus on Hispanic heritage.
15. Jam (Jazz Ambassadors Magazine)
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Media
Telephone: (913) 967-6767
Description: One of the finest regional jazz magazines in the country, JAM has covered the Kansas City jazz scene since 1986. It is distributed free to 500-plus Kansas City Jazz Ambassador members (one more great reason to join this organization), and available free at local jazz venues, record stores, bookstores, and libraries. Whether your musical taste runs to jazz, Dixieland, or bebop, JAM is the place to find where musicians are jamming at nightclubs and festivals, learn more about our town’s musical heritage, and read where to board the bus for the next pub crawl. JAM is produced in even-numbered months.