C.J. Janovy
Director of Content - JournalismA free press is among our country’s founding principles and most precious resources. As director of content-journalism at KCUR, I want everyone in our part of America to know we see them and we’re listening. I work to make sure the stories we tell and the conversations we convene reflect our complex realities, informing and inspiring all of us to meet the profound challenges of our time.
In my role as director of content-journalism, I work to ensure KCUR and its affiliates deliver local and regional audiences with news, features and analysis they want and need, while upholding the highest standards of public service in journalism. I have nearly three decades of journalism and leadership experience in Kansas City, including as an arts reporter then digital managing editor for KCUR from 2014-2020. I rejoined KCUR in my newest role in July 2021.
You can email me at cj@kcur.org.
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KCUR editors discuss their approach to the station's political coverage during the 2022 midterm election. -
A Kansas City writer wants you to know why the late country music legend Merle Haggard still mattersKansas City author David Cantwell, who just published a new version of a book he wrote years ago, says Merle Haggard was 'constantly singing about the things that we're still arguing about today.'
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Over the last few months at KCUR, we’ve been asking folks in our newsroom to describe their work in a different way — so that the communities we serve know what we do, and why we do it.
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Gilbert Baker left Kansas as soon as he could. But, as many around the world celebrate LGBTQ pride month, it's worth noting that Kansas also struggled to hold the flag creator dear.
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Kansas City, like much of the nation, saw a long weekend of demonstrations in response to the Minneapolis killing of George Floyd.
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A symphony commissioned for the University of Kansas music program in response to the Syrian refugee crisis turns out to be relevant in a pandemic, too.
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Updated: Monday, March 23, 4:06 p.m.In the metro area's ongoing effort to slow the spread of coronavirus, residents of Kansas City and Jackson, Clay and…
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This Rising Jazz Star Says It's No Coincidence He Now Lives In Charlie Parker's Old Kansas City HomeLogan Richardson left Kansas City to become a star.Now, twenty years later, having lived in New York City and Italy and toured internationally, the…
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Kansas City threw a party 50 years in the making on Wednesday with a parade to celebrate the Kansas City Chiefs' victory in Super Bowl LIV.The procession…
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Kansas City journalist and bon vivant Charles Ferruzza, known to newspaper and radio audiences for his restaurant reviews that were infused with a deep…
