I am old enough to remember the Indianapolis Times, a newspaper that folded in the mid-1960s. That was the last time there was genuine newspaper competition in Indianapolis. The remaining newspapers, the Star and the News, were both owned by the Pulliam family.
The News, the evening paper, ceased publication in 1999. That left the Star as the only daily newspaper in Indianapolis. In the year 2000, Gannett bought all the Pulliam newspapers, including the Star.
The Star remains the largest daily newspaper in Indiana. However, new journalistic enterprises have come onto the scene recently. The Indiana Capitol Chronicle, Axios and State Affairs are all into local news scene.
Another new player is coming, a nonprofit called Free Press Indiana,and has hired some top editors at the Star. Once that newsroom is hired, one wonders how many more Star journalists will jump ship and head to Free Press Indiana.
James Briggs, former columnist for the Star, has a well-written piece about all this on Axios, at this link.
This is encouraging news! The Star currently has little or no state office or business news (except restaurant closings!). We only subscribe for the 2 day old sports coverage.
Several thoughts:
Funded with $10 million, where is this money coming from?
Staff from Indy Star so why are you expecting something different?
Incorporated as a not for profit, so they have low Finanancial expectations.
The media has become siloed so is anything really changing?
Just thinking.
90% of the media personnel are leftist stooges so I don’t expect anything different than what the star devolves into since the gannett purchase.