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Citing personal reasons, the top editor at The Indianapolis Star is stepping down from the job just 16 months after filling it.
Eric Larsen, formerly the executive editor at the Fort Collins Coloradoan, plans to return to Colorado with his family of five, IndyStar reported Tuesday.
Larsen began his Indianapolis tenure in January 2024. With his exit, four consecutive IndyStar executive editors have held the position for less than two years.
Bro Krift—now the CEO of Free Press Indiana, the nonprofit that launched the Mirror Indy newsroom—served as Larsen’s predecessor from February 2022 to October 2023. Katrice Hardy served as executive editor from March 2020 to July 2021, when she became executive editor for The Dallas Morning News. Hardy’s predecessor was Ronnie Ramos, who served as IndyStar’s executive editor from March 2018 to December 2019.
IndyStar is part of The USA Today Network owned by Gannett. The USA Today Network operates more than 200 media outlets. Gannett also owns Newsquest, which operates more than 150 media outlets in the United Kingdom.
According to Tuesday’s report published by IndyStar, Larsen will assist in the company’s search for his replacement.
“I want to extend my sincere thanks to Eric for his exceptional leadership of this award-winning IndyStar and his many contributions while at the helm,” said Mary Irby-Jones, Gannett’s Midwest regional editor. “We wish him all the best and deeply appreciate his dedicated service to the community and our readers.”
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The Star had an editor? That IS news.
Indy is so fortunate to have locally owned IBJ covering news here. The editing of the Star is done substantially in Louisville, I understand, and it is printed in Peoria. So it fits that no one with roots here and local knowledge is ever in charge of this cookie-cutter, agenda-driven Gannett property. Bleh.
Agenda driven? Have ever watched Faux News Network? Now that “media” outlet has an agenda.
The Jr. High School student in me that couldn’t wait to read the Indianapolis Star every day in study hall mourns the demise of a once great paper. All woke liberal fact news producing outlets are on the same road.
You are so right.
let’s hope the content will improve with a return to the Pulliam days .
This is just more of the same. I don’t know why anyone with any journalistic integrity or sense of professional responsibility would work for the Indy Star. It will have to completely crash and burn to get any attention from Gannett.