The Indianapolis Star debuts its new tabloid, INtake Weekly, today, 12 days after its parent company, Gannett, launched IN, a glossy magazine that competes with the locally owned Indianapolis Woman. Brian A. Howey, writing for the online magazine Indianapolis Eye News, discusses tactics Gannett has used in the past to put newspaper competitors out of business and then raise its advertising rates. "If you're NUVO Publisher Kevin McKinney and his staff, INtake might as well be a gun aimed at your heads," Howey writes. He urges advertisers to continue to place ads in independent publications so Gannett doesn't become their only option.
