Johnson County 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.

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.

[1] "Shawnee Mission" is not the name of a municipality, but rather refers to a postal area designation that incorporates all or parts of 16 cities and towns with Zip Codes in North and Northeast Johnson County Kansas.

[2] The Shawnee Mission Post has part of their site covered by a paywall, noting that the people who pay want "More civics.

[4] The Shawnee Mission Post is a member of both the Kansas Press Association[5] and Local Independent Online News Publishers (LION).