The Indianapolis Star

Overview

The Indianapolis Star (IndyStar) is a morning daily newspaper and the only major daily newspaper in Indianapolis, Indiana. It is owned by USA Today Co. (formerly Gannett) as part of the USA Today Network.

History

Founded June 6, 1903, by Muncie industrialist George F. McCulloch. It absorbed the Indianapolis Journal in 1904 and bought the Indianapolis Sentinel in 1906. The rival Indianapolis News, with which the Star had shared newsroom staff since 1995, ceased publication in 1999, leaving the Star the city's only major daily. Gannett acquired the Star in 2000 as part of a $2.6 billion purchase of Central Newspapers. The paper relocated from its longtime headquarters at 307 N. Pennsylvania Street to the former Nordstrom space in Circle Centre Mall in 2014; in November 2025 it announced plans to relocate again, from its roughly 100,000-square-foot Circle Centre Mall office to a smaller, roughly 8,000-square-foot space nearby, remaining downtown.

Notable works

Won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 1975 (Indianapolis Police Department corruption) and 1991 (medical malpractice), and the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2021 for its investigation into the USA Gymnastics sexual abuse scandal and a separate 2021 investigation into police K-9 bite rates.

Key personnel

Executive Editor: Katrice Hardy (the first woman and first African American to hold the title at the Star, appointed 2020)

Audience

Residents of Indianapolis and central Indiana.

Location and contact info

Address
130 South Meridian Street
Indianapolis, IN 46204 (Circle Centre Mall office; a relocation to a smaller nearby downtown space was announced in November 2025)
Phone
(317) 444-4000
Website
https://www.indystar.com