reporter and photographer for KMBC-TV in Kansas City, Missouri. Awards In April 2019 Dotson was inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame https://okjournalismhalloffame.com/2019/bob-dotson/ On April 15, 2017 Dotson was inducted into the St. Louis Media Hall of Fame for Television. He joined three previous St. Louis Media Hall of Fame inductees from NBC: Dave Garroway, Joe Garragiola and Bob Costas. For more information, visit the foundation's Facebook page or its website, https://goo.gl/IpnLoe. On April 23, 2015 Dotson received the William Allen White National Citation for long standing journalistic excellence in service to the profession and community. Past winners include Watergate reporter Bob Woodward, New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger and CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite. In 2014 Dotson's third book, American Story, a Lifetime Search for Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things won the Christopher Award for Best Non-Fiction Book. In March 2013 Penguin/Random House published Dotson's third book, American Story, a Lifetime Search for Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things. It became a New York Times Best Seller. In 2011 The Society of Professional Journalists selected Dotson's online column writing as the best in the nation. In December 2010 Dotson won a CINE Golden Eagle Award for Best American Television Documentary. His hour-long Christmas special aired on MSNBC. In October 1999 Dotson received a Murrow Award from the Radio and Television Digital News Association for "Best Network Writing." He was awarded this honor a record six times: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012. In 1998 Dotson received the CINE Golden Eagle for Best Television Series – Bob Dotson's American Story. In 1995 Dotson received two National Clarion Awards from Women in Communications for his work on the Susan Smith Trial and his American Story television series. In 1991 Dotson received the CINE Golden Eagle Grand Prize for Best Documentary in International competitions – "El Capitan's Courage Climbers." The film won seven International Film Festivals. In 1989 the National Press Photographers selected Dotson for the Sprague Award, its highest honor. In 1974 Dotson earned his first national EMMY Award and was the Grand Prize recipient of both the Robert F. Kennedy and DuPont Columbia Awards for Best Television Program of 1973. His 90-minute documentary, "Through the Looking Glass Darkly," told the little known story of African-Americans in the Oklahoma territory and their contributions following Oklahoma Statehood. In 1972 Dotson's film, "Still Got Life to Go," shot in an Oklahoma prison for juvenile