Former Star columnist’s lawsuit set for trial
Susan Guyett sued The Indianapolis Star in April 2010, alleging that her age led to her dismissal in December 2008.
Susan Guyett sued The Indianapolis Star in April 2010, alleging that her age led to her dismissal in December 2008.
Gannett Co. said the jobs will be added in central Indiana as part of an expansion of its media-related groups. Meanwhile, the newspaper’s union continues to negotiate a new contract with the company.
The Indianapolis Newspaper Guild, beleaguered by round after round of layoffs, has launched a critical advertising campaign as it enters contract negotiations with Gannett Co.
Thought on the folding of the Indianapolis Star’s not-quite-alt weekly.
A deep round of layoffs at The Indianapolis Star is only the beginning of a major restructuring of the company's news operations, Publisher Karen Crotchfelt told IBJ in an interview Wednesday.
The Indianapolis Star on Tuesday laid off 62 employees including more than 15 percent of its newsroom staff in the latest round of cost-cutting by Gannett Co. Inc., the newspaper's parent company.
The Indianapolis Star is halting publication of its free weekly stand-alone Metromix section after the June 23 edition, but some of the content intended to appeal to young readers will be posted online.
An Arizona newspaper executive is set to take over as publisher of The Indianapolis Star, replacing Michael Kane.
Details of the confidential agreement were not made public. The union said in a letter to Star employees that the eight will receive a financial settlement but will not be rehired.
Virginia-based Gannett Co., the Star’s parent company, this month informed employees of a plan to move layout
and design work for its 83 dailies to five regional design hubs.
Susan Guyett, who wrote the Talk of Our Town column, claims the newspaper discriminated against her on the basis of age when
she was let go from her job in 2008.
A piece written by a reporter more than three years ago that was repackaged recently as part of an advertising supplement
has
drawn the ire of the paper’s guild.
The 178-member union is suing to preserve its arbitration rights, and possibly win back the jobs of eight people who were
let go last summer.
Two former editorial writers at Indiana’s largest newspaper failed to prove they were the victims of religious discrimination,
according to a circuit court of appeals.
The parent company of Indianapolis Business Journal has filed plans to add a sign with an electronic-message component outside
the newspaper’s headquarters at 41 E. Washington St.
A new eye-grabbing advertising design in The Indianapolis Star has some wondering where ad content stops and news
content begins.
Indianapolis Star business columnist John Ketzenberger is leaving the newspaper to become president of the Indiana Fiscal
Policy Institute, the organization said today.
The Indianapolis Newspaper Guild voted 56-45 today to ratify a new, two-year contract with the Gannett Co.-owned Indianapolis
Star
that includes a 10-percent pay cut and two-year wage freeze.
The Indianapolis Newspaper Guild plans to vote this afternoon on a new, two-year contract with the Gannett Co.-owned Indianapolis
Star that includes a 10-percent pay cut and two-year wage freeze.
Thirty-seven people were laid off at the Indianapolis Star yesterday and today as part of Virginia-based parent Gannett
Co. Inc.’s attempt to grapple with the swooning economy and falling advertising revenue. Seventeen of those laid off were
in the newsroom of the state’s largest daily newspaper, including seven editors, which constitutes one-fourth of the
editorial management team.