Rick Atkinson won an award for "National Reporting." The Times shared an award with The Star "Local General or Spot New Reporting" for its coverage of the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse.
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He subsequently worked for the Kansas City Times in Kansas City and Washington, D.C., and then for the (Denver) Rocky Mountain News as its Washington correspondent.
1982 – Rick Atkinson (of The Kansas City Times) for national reporting for a series on the West Point Class of 1968