Kansas City Star publisher Mark Zieman gets raptured up to corporate gig

The rumors were true: Mark Zieman has written his last always-look-on-the-bright-side-of-life layoff memo as publisher of The Kansas City Star. Zieman is getting raptured up the corporate ladder to become the vice president of operations for McClatchy Co. in Sacramento, California. He’ll oversee 13 papers, including the Star.

Zieman told the Star: “I love The Star and Kansas City and would have been happy serving both forever. But the future of newspapers in our democracy is now being written and reimagined in communities across our country. … To help lead that effort, yet still oversee my hometown paper, is the perfect opportunity for me.