journalism

A week ago, Rich Jackson was the top editor at The Bloomington Herald-Times. Now he’s homeless, jobless, and blogging from a Motel 6.

Buyouts and layoffs at The Indianapolis Star beg questions about what the city would look like without it.

“I have always identified my most Hoosier characteristic as being authentic. Just being myself.”

Compiling his writings about the state for the first time, a new book reveals just how important those Hoosier ties were to Pyle.

“Kids and their parents are thinking they’re the next football star or the next Venus Williams or Tiger Woods, so they play the same sport year-round, and they don’t get rest.”

Via @JayNilla: “At halftime, the Union leads the Confederacy 27-14.”

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He reads his mail. He takes your calls. He looks at almost every single sarcastic and anonymous comment you leave beneath his stories on the Star’s website.

The recent writer-at-large and former associate editor at IM will return to the magazine full-time on April 1.

The Star has more local stuff than it once did, I’ll grant you that, and much of it is good. Sometimes, though, you must get desperate to fill space, as with the piece you ran about a deer beaten on the head with a hammer on I-70.

As AP reporter Tom LoBianco churned out hit after hit, politicos quietly talked about how he was able to get so much dirt on Tony Bennett. But the blogosphere erupted with more pointed talk of foul play by the Glenda Ritz administration.

Ellis will cover dining and home, as well as other lifestyle topics and projects. Previously, she initiated a redesign at the award-winning Ball Bearings publication at Ball State University that won Best Overall Design at the 2013 Indiana Collegiate Press Association awards.

“Our leverage is a moral argument,” says King. “It’s about money being siphoned from an important local institution.” Although the Guild has never gone on strike, King planned to go into negotiations with every available option in his briefcase.