Blog: Star publisher Mark Zieman may be off to McClatchyland

Kansas City Star publisher and professional optimist Mark Zieman could be leaving his current post for a job at corporate, according to media blogger John Landsberg, who’s pretty clued in to the happenings at the city’s major daily. Landsberg says Zieman may be named vice president of operations at the McClatchy Co., the Star‘s owner.

If true, Zieman would follow the path of Art Brisbane, the former Star editor and publisher who became an executive at Knight Ridder. McClatchy bought the Star and other newspapers from Knight Ridder in 2006, back in the day when print-media companies sold for more than $1.