The Indianapolis Star
Summary
The Indianapolis Star is a daily newspaper which began publishing on June 6, 1903.It began as a morning daily paper in competition with two other Indianapolis dailies, the Indianapolis Journal and the Indianapolis Sentinel, which it eventually took over. In 1948, The Star owner Eugene C. Pulliam purchased rival evening paper the Indianapolis News. In 1999, The News ceased publication, leaving The Star as the only major daily paper in Indianapolis. The Star was acquired by Gannett in 2000, leaving Indianapolis with no locally owned daily newspaper. The Star has won the Pulitzer Prize twice for investigative reporting. In 1975, The Star was honored for its 1974 series on corruption within the Indianapolis Police Department.
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How to cover the 1 in 5 Americans who say they have ‘no religion’
A new survey by Pew found that nearly 20 percent of Americans say they’re unaffiliated with any religion, the highest percentages ever in Pew Research Center polling. Is the country about to be overrun by atheists? Not exactly.
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Detroit publisher says layoffs coming to Free Press
Detroit Free Press publisher Paul Anger told employees Tuesday he anticipated layoffs would be coming to the newspaper. The news, first reported by Steve Neavling at Motor City Muckraker, apparently came during a morning meeting to announce the departure… Read more.
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A lesson in collaboration: How 15 news orgs worked together to tell a single education story
Shared bylines are common enough. But what about a story with the names of 15 reporters and more than a dozen news organizations attached to it?.
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NFL cements spectacle of Super Bowl Media Day by selling public tickets
Indianapolis Business Journal | The Indianapolis Star For the first time, members of the general public attended the Super Bowl Media Day. The tickets for Tuesday’s event cost $25, according to the Indianapolis Business Journal’s Anthony Schoettle, and… Read more.
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Hooker Scare XLVI: Assessing the Anatomy of the Super Bowl’s Pink Menace
Last July, Austria Andrews walked through the lobby of an Indianapolis hotel, holding a vanilla-frosted cupcake. Her braided hair was neatly twisted up, and she was dressed in a geometric-print wrap dress with some silver jewelry. Andrews looked like any other woman in the hotel that day: an unremarkable extra.
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Indy Star will go to trial in age discrimination suit filed by laid-off columnist
Susan J. Guyett says she was laid off from her job at the Gannett paper because of her age. She was 59 at the time. The judge presiding over the matter says there is enough evidence to go to trial… Read more.
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Indy Employees Get $1K Bonuses, Including Union Leaders Who Won't Keep Them to Protest Criteria
In a relatively rare event at a time of furloughs and other cost-cutting, The Indianapolis Star has given year-end $1,000 bonuses to at least dozens of rank-and-file employees, local union leaders said yesterday, according to one of my readers. But. . .
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When your guest columnist is accused of running a Ponzi scheme, what do you do?
The big financial news out of Indiana on Wednesday was that Keenan Hauke, chief executive officer of the Indianapolis investment firm Samex Capital Partners LLC, was charged with running a Ponzi scheme and has agreed to plead guilty.
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Orlando consumer columnist switching to work/life coverage
Greg Dawson, the consumer columnist for the Orlando Sentinel for the past nine years, is switching beats to workplace issues.
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Gannett Shuttering MomsLikeMe Network, Deleting Everything
Gannett’s MomsLikeMe hyperlocal parenting network will cease operating on Friday and its 100-plus town-specific sites will go dark and the content will be deleted. The move comes as the company prepares for more difficult economic times and last week’s news that Gannett (NYSE: GCI) CEO Craig Dubow had resigned following continued complications related to his back surgery two years ago.
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