“Instead of just doing something, I’m showing people the steps to completing the job.” — Tim Janicke

Tim Janicke is editor of Star Magazine, the Sunday magazine of The Kansas City Star. He is also a writer and photographer for the magazine. He is an adjunct professor of photojournalism at the J-School and frequent contributor to journalism workshops.

Janicke is the author and photographer of a book about public art in Kansas City called City of Art. The book, offered by the books division of The Kansas City Star, was first published in 2001.

In the summer of 2000, Janicke wrote and photographed a 10-part series for the Star Travel section about Interstate 35. For the series, he flew to Laredo, Texas and drove I-35 to Duluth, Minn. — 1593 miles.

Janicke has also served as assistant managing editor for photography at The Star, and in other editing positions in the photography department of the newspaper. He coordinated the newspaper’s photo coverage of baseball and football playoffs, including the 1985 World Series; of NCAA basketball tournaments, including the 1988 Final Four in Kansas City; and has also coordinated photo coverage of eight national political conventions. Janicke worked at The Hutchinson (Kan.) News and The Olathe (Kan.) Daily News before moving to The Star.

He was editor of the 1987 book A Week at Kansas State, featuring the photographs of 44 Kansas State alumni and student photographers.

Janicke worked for Student Publications at Kansas State University for 10 semesters — eight regular semesters and two summers from 1972-1976. He was a photographer, reporter, photo editor and summer editor of The Kansas State Collegian in 1976.

Janicke graduated from Kansas State University in 1986. He is married to Paula Janicke, a copy editor at Fred Pryor Seminars, and has two children, Natasha, a freshman journalism student at Kansas State University, and Andrew, a middle school student. He lives in Shawnee, Kan.