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founded in 2010. It is updated daily, Mondays through Fridays.

History

Upon their return in 2010 from volunteer

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, 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.About the Shawnee Mission Post
Shawnee Mission Post. Retrieved October 19, 2021. They have also covered state legislators and federal representatives from the 3rd Congressional district and the U.S. Senate. They received advice and assistance from publisher emeritus Dan Blom. By 2014, 35,000 unique visitors per month were logging on. By 2019, the number of unique visitors had grown to almost 300,000 and paid subscribers to the site to 3,700, paying an average of $72 annually. "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. It borders southwest

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The towns include Leawood, Lenexa, Mission, Mission Hills, Overland Park (partial), Prairie Village, Roeland Park, Shawnee, and Westwood. If those towns were a single municipality, they would constitute the second largest city in Kansas, with a population of over 400,000. The ''Shawnee Mission Post'' has part of their site covered by a paywall, noting that the people who pay want "More civics. Fewer restaurants." This may not work for other news outlets, but it seems to be working for the ''Shawnee Mission Post''. The ''Shawnee Mission Post'' is a member of both the Kansas Press Association and Local Independent Online News Publishers (LION). In 2021 a sister publication, the Blue Valley Post, was launched to focus on issues on the Blue Valley region of east central and southeast Johnson County centered around Overland Park and parts of Leawood and Stilwell. The two newspapers share the same staff and are owned by the same individuals, Jay Senter and Dan Blom, who founded Post Publishing Inc. to jointly manage the two papers.

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* 2010 establishments in the United States American news websites Internet properties established in 2010 Mass media in the Kansas City metropolitan area {{WikidataCoord