The Kansas City Star - Pulitzer Prizes

Pulitzer Prizes

The newspaper has won eight Pulitzer Prizes:

• 1931 Pulitzer Prize – A.B. MacDonald for articles about a murder in Amarillo, Texas
• 1933 Pulitzer Prize – Editorial Writing
• 1944 Pulitzer Prize – Henry Haskell for Editorial Writing
• 1952 Pulitzer Prize – Coverage of the Great Flood of 1951
• 1954 Pulitzer Prize – Alvin Scott McCoy's local reporting coverage that led to the resignation of C. Wesley Roberts as Republican National Chairman
• 1982 Pulitzer Prize – Local news reporting of the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse (along with The Kansas City Times)
• 1982 – Rick Atkinson (of The Kansas City Times) for national reporting for a series on the West Point Class of 1968
• 1992 Pulitzer Prize – National reporting by Jeff Taylor and Mike McGraw's critical examination of the U.S. Department of Agriculture