Johnson County Post
online news outlet in Johnson County, Kansas
The Johnson County Post is a United States nonpartisan subscription-based online newspaper founded in 2010. It is updated daily, Mondays through Fridays.
History
Shawnee Mission Post
Upon their return in 2010 from volunteer Peace Corps postings in Panama, Jay Senter and Julia Westhoff, a couple who had worked together on their college newspaper found that media coverage of their home in northern Johnson County, Kansas, lacked coverage of government and school news. In response, they started a news website At first, they called their publication, the Prairie Village Post.
As they broadened their extent of their coverage, they adopted the name, Shawnee Mission Post.
The intent of the publishers was to focus on local news, most particularly in Northern Johnson County, Kansas. To that end, they covered municipal affairs in the sixteen towns within the Postal-designated area Shawnee Mission, as well as school district meetings and news. They have also covered state legislators and federal representatives from the 3rd Congressional district and the U.S. Senate.
Dan Blom, a former newspaper editor, joined the organization in 2012. By 2014, 35,000 unique visitors per month were logging on.
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