Prez & Publisher Mike Fannin Kaput At Kansas City Star

This is a big deal to newsies and nobody else. 

For instance . . . 

Most people have no idea which editors run the news local TV stations and they don't care . . . In fact, those journalists have far more reach and influence.

Meanwhile . . . We're thankful that JimmyC unpacks the story for his readers. Check-it . . .

Clear down at the bottom of the story, where there is customarily a line identifying the writer and his or her title, the sentence describing Farmer said simply, “Greg Farmer is The Star’s interim executive editor.”

That would mean little or nothing to the casual reader, but to insiders who have been around journalism, it was a ground-shaking sentence. What those eight words said was that Mike Fannin, who has been on leave twice since being arrested June 7 in Olathe on suspicion of DUI, is out. (The arrest was his third on a DUI charge.)

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Mike Fannin is out after three years as president and editor at The Kansas City Star; Greg Farmer is heir apparent

In a column posted on The Star's website this morning, Greg Farmer, the paper's managing editor the last six years, thanked readers for their loyalty and talked about "connecting better" with them. However, as we used to say in the newsroom when the biggest news was not played prominently at the top of the story,...