Edmund Atkinson

Edmund Atkinson was a male human and reporter for the Times. His office was in London, though through holocam technology, he often attended presidential press briefings while on a beach in Mexico. Typically, his projection was seated next to Ozla Graniv of the Seeker.

In 2379 Atkinson attended a press conference where Kant Jorel, the Federation Council's liason to the press announced the candidates for the special election for the President of the United Federation of Planets. Atkinson asked why former president Min Zife had felt the need to resign with only one year left in his term. He and his readers (or so he claimed) did not believe this question was fully covered in Zife's resignation speech.

A few months later in January, 2380, Atkinson attended another press briefing in which Kant implied that negotiators from Delta and Carrea would be coming to Earth to meet with President Nanietta Bacco. Atkinson asked directly if the negotiators had agreed to come as Kant had merely implied that they were. His question earned a sarcastic reply from Kant. (TNG novel: A Time for War, A Time for Peace and ST novel: Articles of the Federation)