Truth, Religion and the Demise of Local Newspapers

Photo caption: The Kansas City Star, founded in 1880, occupied this building at 1729 Grand Boulevard, from 1911 until 2005. It’s now called Grand Place and is being turned into a mixed-use development at the edge of Downtown. Photo credit: Bill Tammeus | Flatland. Article by Bill Tammeus. Flatland – December 29, 2024.

When I started reporting at The Kansas City Star in late 1970, it was a regional newspaper that served not just the metro area but also east to mid-Missouri, west to central Kansas, and beyond. I was part of a staff of hundreds, and the paper’s circulation — all print then, of course — was in the hundreds of thousands daily with the morning Kansas City Times and the evening Star. […]

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