Mason King

News Editor/Multimedia Producer

Mason is on his second tour of duty with IBJ, having served as its real estate reporter from 1996 to 1999. Over 30 years working for newspapers and magazines across the country, he has covered most beats on the typical masthead, including business, sports, city government, arts, and consumer issues.

An alumnus of Broad Ripple High School, Mason continues a grand tradition of IBJ staffers educated in Indianapolis public schools. After graduating from Columbia University, he stumbled into print journalism, thanks to a Eugene C. Pulliam Fellowship at The Indianapolis Star. Among his favorite gigs were arts editor for the Daily Journal-World in Lawrence, Kansas, and managing editor of Billiards Digest magazine, for which he spanned the globe covering poolroom hustlers and world champions. During his six-year tenure, BD was cited three times by the anthology "The Best American Sports Writing."

Thanks to its unusually trusting head honchos, Mason returned to IBJ in 2009 to captain its nascent multimedia efforts. Over three years, he created 600-plus video segments for IBJ.com, and his work was recognized by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) and the Alliance of Area Business Publications (AABP). In 2013, he added the mantle of news editor (which isn’t as lofty or authoritative as it sounds) and launched IBJ's morning e-newsletter, Eight@8, as its eponymous author and news curator. Eight@8 received the 2017 Gold Medal for Best Daily Email from AABP.

Phone:
317-517-5371

Email:
mking@ibj.com

Staffing company scoops up firms in Kokomo, Logansport

May 13, 2019

Mason King

A Virginia-based company that specializes in providing workers in the marine, commercial and industrial sectors has acquired two similar firms based in Indiana.

Q&A with Austin Broadwater, who urges building owners to think about the birds

May 10, 2019

Mason King

Austin Broadwater encourages owners and managers of large buildings downtown to turn off or dim their lights at night during the spring and fall bird migration seasons.

Indianapolis Monthly to vacate longtime offices, make way for STAR Bank on Circle

May 9, 2019

Mason King

The bank will use the three-story building that fronts Monument Circle for lending offices and a branch location. The magazine's staff plans to move into the adjacent headquarters for Emmis Communications.

Sheet-metal firm planning $4.2M expansion, 40 hires for new unit

April 15, 2019

Mason King

Greenwood-based Poynter Sheet Metal Inc. and its landlord have applied for partial property tax abatements on the project that would save them a total of $595,000 over 10 years.

WISH, sister station to be sold to Indy native's firm for $42.5M

April 8, 2019

Mason King

DuJuan McCoy, who has agreed to buy the stations, also is the owner and CEO of Bayou City Broadcasting LLC, one of the leading black-owned broadcast TV station affiliate groups in the United States.

Former Indy-area attorney pleads guilty to tax evasion

April 5, 2019

Mason King

Scott C. Cole of Brownsburg took extensive steps for several years to avoid paying federal taxes owed from more than a decade before, according to his plea agreement.

Allison Transmission seeking $2.7M tax break from city on $34.5M testing facility

April 1, 2019

Mason King

Officials for the Indianapolis-based transmission giant tell city officials that the project would create 193 jobs that pay an average of $20.39 per hour, as well as help it retain current employees.

UPDATE: Children's Museum dino project to include two massive Jurassic skeletons

March 25, 2019

Mason King

With a budget of $27.5 million, The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis is heading a research project that will include excavation of fossil-rich land in Wyoming and big additions to its Dinosphere exhibit.

New owner of historic White Castle building ordering up rehab

March 18, 2019

Mason King

Jason Hartman plans to fix up the turreted downtown building—one of White Castle’s first generation of fast-food restaurants—and lease it to a new user as retail, office or live-and-work space.