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Newsroom Profile: Indianapolis Recorder

  • Tracey Compton, Indianapolis Public Editor

Indy resident Karis Dix, 18, is more likely to get her news from social media than a newspaper. But every year since she was 16, she has looked to the Indianapolis Recorder for coverage about the Debutante Cotillion and Scholarship Ball. When she was a child, her mother, an avid Recorder reader, would take her […]

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Meet the Gen Z journalist who bought his hometown newspaper in Georgia

  • Ellie Fivas

Four years ago, Evan Newton was an intern at the Monticello News. Last month, he became the newspaper’s editor, publisher and owner after purchasing the outlet from its previous local owner.  At 25 years old, Newton is one of the youngest newspaper owners in Georgia. He told the Georgia Recorder that he got a “great […]

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The history of Indianapolis lives in old newspaper archives. Can we get to it?

  • Tracey Compton, Indianapolis Public Editor

Back in the day, when newspapers were flush with resources, they had internal libraries or archives of all of their stories, casually referred to as morgues. It was common practice for reporters to “check the morgue” before writing any story about the community. Reporters could learn the history of almost anything in Indianapolis by checking […]