The Indianapolis Star
| The Indianapolis Star | |
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| description | daily newspaper |
| language | English |
| publishing company | Gannett ( Germany ) |
| Headquarters | Indianapolis |
| First edition | June 6, 1903 |
| Frequency of publication | Mondays to Sundays |
| Sold edition | 93,612 on weekdays 213,870 copies on Sundays |
| ( Gannett Annual Report 2017 ) | |
| Web link | indystar.com |
| ISSN (print) | 1930-2533 |
The Indianapolis Star is an American daily from Indianapolis founded in 1903. It appears Monday through Sunday and is owned by the media company Gannett .
history
The Indianapolis star has the Muncie- born railroad entrepreneur George McCulloch as his spiritual father. The newspaper, which first appeared on June 6, 1903 and contained a greeting from President Theodore Roosevelt , was published daily from the start and competed with the Indiana Journal and the Indiana State Sentinel . By 1907, the Indianapolis Star had bought both older newspapers or pushed them out of the market. In that year he also moved into the editorial building on the corner of New York and Pennsylvania Street, which was in use until 2014. Since then, the newspaper has been based at the Circle Center. As early as 1904 McCulloch had to sell the Indianapolis Star to Daniel G. Reid , as he made losses due to low prices. Reid was a very successful tinplate manufacturer, hiring John Shaffer of the Chicago Post as publisher and editor . Shaffer, who was awarded a majority stake in the Indianapolis Star in a 1908 court case , was the head of the paper until his death in 1943. Under his aegis, the paper gained the reputation of being the “newspaper for businessmen” and advocated social and economic reforms. Well-known journalists for the Indianapolis Star during this period were Mary E. Bostwick , who was in the tradition of Nellie Bly , and political columnist Maurice Early. The writer Booth Tarkington wrote regularly for this newspaper.
In 1944 the publisher and radio entrepreneur sat Eugene C. Pulliam against competing offers by and bought the Indianapolis Star and the Muncie Star for 2.35 million dollars . Pulliam revised the newspaper concept in order to be better able to compete against the evening newspapers Indianapolis News and Indianapolis Times . To this end, a section for women was created, the sports section expanded and a Sunday supplement initiated, which was discontinued in 1985 due to a lack of advertising income . Pulliam also managed to poach popular columnist Lowell Nussbaum from the Indianapolis Times . He was not afraid of controversy and regularly wrote editorials. By 1947, the Indianapolis Star became the highest-circulation newspaper in Indiana, and holds that position to this day. After his death in 1975, his son Eugene S. Pulliam became the newspaper's new editor. When he died, the media company Gannett bought the Indianapolis Star in 2000 .
In 1975, the Indianapolis Star won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles on corruption within the Indianapolis police force that began in February 1974. Another Pulitzer Prize followed in 1991. In this case, a report was awarded about doctors in Indiana who, despite lost trials for malpractice, continued to practice without being prosecuted.
literature
- Owen V. Johnson: Indianapolis Star. In Stephen L. Vaughn (Ed.): Encyclopedia of American Journalism. Routledge, New York City 2008, ISBN 0-415-96950-6 , pp. 221f.
- Beth Murphy: Indianapolis Star. In David J. Bodenhamer, Robert G. Barrows (Eds.): The Encyclopedia of Indianapolis. Indiana University, Bloomington 1994, ISBN 0-253-31222-1 , pp. 807f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karen Ferguson: New IndyStar home, same news values. In: Indianapolis Star, Sept. 27, 2014.