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Kansas City Star

Kansas City Star
The Kansas City Star front page.jpg
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) McClatchy
Publisher Tony Berg
Editor Mike Fannin
Founded 1880; 137 years ago (1880)
Headquarters 1729 Grand Boulevard
Kansas City, MO 64108
USA
Circulation 169,936 Daily
254,111 Sunday
ISSN 0745-1067
OCLC number 3555868
Website www.kansascity.com

The Kansas City Star is a newspaper based in Kansas City, Missouri, in the United States. Published since 1880, the paper is the recipient of eight Pulitzer Prizes. The Star is most notable for its influence on the career of President Harry Truman and as the newspaper where a young Ernest Hemingway honed his writing style. It was also central to government-mandated divestiture of radio and television outlets by newspaper concerns in the late 1950s.

"Kansas City Star" is also the name of a song by the musician Roger Miller, released in 1965.

The paper, originally called The Kansas City Evening Star, was founded September 18, 1880, by William Rockhill Nelson and Samuel E. Morss. The two moved to Missouri after selling the newspaper that became the Fort Wayne News Sentinel (and earlier owned by Nelson's father) in Nelson's Indiana hometown, where Nelson was campaign manager in the unsuccessful Presidential run of Samuel Tilden.

Morss quit the newspaper business within a year and a half because of ill health. At the time there were three daily competitors – the Evening Mail, The Kansas City Times and the Kansas City Journal.

Competitor Times editor Eugene Field wrote this about the new newspaper:

Nelson's business strategy called for cheap advance subscriptions and an intention to be "absolutely independent in politics, aiming to deal by all men and all parties with impartiality and fearlessness.".

He purchased the Kansas City Evening Mail (and its Associated Press evening franchise) in 1882. The paper name was changed to The Kansas City Star in 1885. Nelson started the Weekly Kansas City Star in 1890 and the Sunday Kansas City Star in 1894. In 1901 Nelson also bought the morning paper The Kansas City Times (and its morning Associated Press franchise). Nelson announced the arrival of the "24 Hour Star."


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