| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Publisher | Carolene Mays |
| Editor | Shannon Williams |
| Founded | 1896 |
| Headquarters | 2901 N. Tacoma Indianapolis, Indiana 46218 United States |
| Circulation | 100,000 |
| Official website | indianapolisrecorder.com |
The Indianapolis Recorder is a weekly newspaper which began publishing in 1896. The newspaper was established by George E Stewart and William H. Porter. The newspaper's primary readership are African-American and the newspaper has the distinction of being published for longer than any other African-American paper in Indiana and being the nation's fourth oldest-surviving African-American newspaper. [1][2]
The Recorder received the Indiana Journalism Award in 2000. The National Newspaper Publishers Association honored The Indianapolis Recorder with Merit Awards in eight of its 21 categories during its 54th annual convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1994.