The Kansas City Star

The Kansas City Star is a newspaper in Kansas City, Missouri. It was founded in 1880 by William Rockhill Nelson.

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Newspaper - Kansas City, Missouri - William Rockhill Nelson

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A young Ernest Hemingway was a reporter for the Star from October 1916 to April 1917. Though his time on the paper was brief, Hemingway credited Star editor C.G. "Pete" Wellington with changing a wordy high-schooler's writing style into clear, provocative English. Throughout his lifetime he referred to this admonition from the Stars style guide:

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Ernest Hemingway - Style guide

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:"Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative."

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Under editor Roy A. Roberts, the paper was an avowed Republican organ, particularly aimed at cavilling local Democratic politician Harry S. Truman. Truman returned the paper's hatred.

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Roy A. Roberts - Republican - Democratic - Harry S. Truman

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The Star was so strong for the Republicans that the news of its first Pulitzer Prize in 1947 was given only four paragraphs. The prize-winning stories revealed the Republican National Chairman as a crook. The paper won three more Pulitzer Prizes in the 1980s under Publisher James E. Hale.

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The paper, now owned by Knight-Ridder, sponsors a contest for high school journalists to this day. In recent years the Star sports section has won various awards, including for commentaries by Joe Posnanski, Mechelle Voepel and Jason Whitlock.

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Knight-Ridder - Joe Posnanski - Mechelle Voepel - Jason Whitlock

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