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The Kansas City Star

The Kansas City Star is a newspaper based in Kansas City, Missouri. Published since 1880, the paper is the recipient of eight Pulitzer Prizes.

For the 1965 Roger Miller single, see Kansas City Star (song).

Type

Daily newspaper

Broadsheet

McClatchy

Tony Berg

Mike Fannin

1880 (1880)

1601 McGee
Kansas City, MO 64108
USA
39°5′34″N 94°34′51″W / 39.09278°N 94.58083°W / 39.09278; -94.58083

89,175 Daily
109,438 Sunday (as of 2020).[1]

0745-1067

3555868

kansascity.com

The Star is most notable for its influence on the career of President Harry S. Truman and as the newspaper where a young Ernest Hemingway honed his writing style.[2] The paper is the major newspaper of the Kansas City metropolitan area and has widespread circulation in western Missouri and eastern Kansas.

Pulitzer Prize for Reporting – A. B. MacDonald, "for his work in connection with a murder in Amarillo, Texas."

1931

Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing – no author named

1933

Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing – Henry Haskell, "for editorials written during the calendar year 1943."

1944

Pulitzer Prize Special Citation – "for the news coverage of the great regional flood of 1951 in Kansas and Northwestern Missouri –– a distinguished example of editing and reporting that also gave the advance information that achieved the maximum of public protection."

1952

Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, No Edition Time – Alvin Scott McCoy, "for a series of exclusive stories which led to the resignation under fire of C. Wesley Roberts as Republican National Chairman."

1954

Pulitzer Prize for Local General or Spot News Reporting – "for coverage of the Hyatt Regency Hotel disaster and identification of its causes" (along with the Kansas City Times)

1982

Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting – Rick Atkinson (of the Kansas City Times), "for the uniform excellence of his reporting and writing on stories of national import."

1982

Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting – Jeff Taylor and Mike McGraw, "for their critical examination of the U.S. Department of Agriculture."

1992

Pulitzer Prize for Commentary – Melinda Henneberger, "for persuasive columns demanding justice for alleged victims of a retired police detective accused of being a sexual predator."

2022

Other awards[edit]

In 2018, the paper received two awards at the Scripps Howard Foundation's National Journalism Awards. The paper itself won in the First Amendment category for its 2017 feature "Why so secret, Kansas?," on the topic of official state agency resistance to the release of public records,[21] while columnist Melinda Henneberger won in the Opinion category.[22]

Ernest Hemingway

Joe McGuff

Joe Posnanski

Lee Shippey

William E. Vaughan

William Allen White

Jason Whitlock

 

Journalism portal

(Official mobile site)

The Kansas City Star official site

Kansas City Star Quilts

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"2007 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation"

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"The Kansas City Star"

Ford, Susan Jezak (1999). . Kansas City Public Library. Archived from the original on November 5, 2004. Retrieved October 23, 2006.

"Roy A. Roberts"

. Columbia University. Archived from the original on October 6, 2006. Retrieved October 23, 2006.

"The Pulitzer Prizes"