Media
Staying informed in Jacksonville isn’t difficult. There’s a ready (and often free) supply of mainstream, alternative print, and electronic media to help you piece together what’s going down on any day of the week. Whether you’re interested in arts, entertainment, local politics, sports, or the business climate, chances are you’ll find what you need in Jacksonville’s mix of newspapers, radio stations, TV stations, and Web sites.
1. Financial News & Daily Record
City: Jacksonville, FL
Category: Media
Telephone: (904) 356-2466
Address: 10 North Newman St.
Description: The Financial News & Daily Record reports on Jacksonville’s business and legal communities. Published since 1912, the Daily Record is where you’ll find all the city’s legal notices. In recent years the paper has expanded its coverage to include more profiles and feature articles dealing with the business, legal, and real estate industries in Jacksonville.The Daily Record is published Monday through Friday. You can buy a copy at most bookshops and newsstands. Many non-legal types read it faithfully for the daily gossip or Heard on the Street column that appears on the front left side of the paper. Sometimes the gossip is even correct!
City: Jacksonville, FL
Category: Media
3. St. Augustine Record
City: Jacksonville, FL
Category: Media
Telephone: (904) 829-6562
Description: The St. Augustine Record has been chronicling the news in the Ancient City and St. Johns County for more than a century. The Record is owned by Morris Communications Corp., just like its sister publication the Florida Times-Union. Daily circulation is around 18,000. The Record recently left its longtime home in downtown St. Augustine for an ultramodern facility so that it could better cover fast-growing St. Johns County. The Record also hosts a popular, award-winning Web site, which features stories from the daily newspaper as well as general travel information about St. Augustine.
4. Florida Star
City: Jacksonville, FL
Category: Media
Telephone: (904) 766-8834
Description: Jacksonville’s largest black publication, the Florida Star has been published since 1951. The Florida Star is a statewide weekly newspaper covering all the news that is relevant to Jacksonville’s black community—business, human interest, and entertainment as well as politics and education. The Florida Star is sold at 200 locations, including Publix and Winn-Dixie grocery stores and Walgreens Drug stores, mostly in the predominantly African-American sections of the city.
5. Folio Weekly
City: Jacksonville, FL
Category: Media
Telephone: (904) 260-9770
Address: 9456 Philips Hwy.
Description: Folio Weekly, which bills itself as Northeast Florida’s news and opinion magazine, is the area’s spunky alternative paper and, as such, often runs stories and opinions you won’t find in the mainstream media. The tabloid-size paper also features movie, arts, and music reviews.Folio Weekly’s comprehensive entertainment listings, movie reviews, and book reviews are indispensable, regardless of whether you live here or are just passing through. Folio Weekly also runs the most extensive personals listings of any publication in the area.Every week, close to 139,000 readers read Folio Weekly, copies of which are dropped off on Tuesday at restaurants and stores from Fernandina Beach to St. Augustine. Grab a free copy at public libraries, bookstores, coffee shops, and at many restaurants.
6. Jacksonville Business Journal
City: Jacksonville, FL
Category: Media
Telephone: (904) 396-3502
Address: 1200 Riverplace Blvd.
Description: The Jacksonville Business Journal provides weekly news and commentary on the area’s businesses and industries. Regular columns cover health care, marketing, real estate, and technology. Editors contribute daily business reports to local television and radio stations. The Business Journal also publishes an annual Book of Lists, a comprehensive compilation of the city’s major companies and firms.
7. Arbus
City: Jacksonville, FL
Category: Media
Telephone: (904) 346-1920
Address: 1816 Landon Ave.
Description: This is Northeast Florida’s arts and business magazine. But don’t be fooled; it’s not a business magazine like the Jacksonville Business Journal. This magazine covers the business of art and boasts a readership of 100,000, which makes sense in a city where the arts are finally taking a front seat. The magazine always features a cover story on a prominent local or regional artist and runs stories about the latest exhibitions at area art museums. Arbus also covers music and offers a comprehensive calendar of upcoming art and entertainment events. It’s published every other month and is given away at area newsstands, in coffee shops, sandwich shops, and some restaurants.
City: Jacksonville, FL
Category: Media
Address: 1261 King St.
9. Water’S Edge
City: Jacksonville, FL
Category: Media
Description: Water’s Edge, one of the Times Union’s monthly magazines, is an oversize glossy featuring articles on homes, interior design, gardening, restaurant reviews, and profiles of interesting personalities and their homes in the coastal South. It’s available at bookstores, select Publix and Winn-Dixie supermarkets, the lobby of the Florida Times-Union building at One Riverside Ave., or by subscription. The parent company also produces Water’s Edge Weddings.
10. Eu Jacksonville (Entertaining U)
City: Jacksonville, FL
Category: Media
Telephone: (904) 730-3003
Description: This weekly entertainment newspaper prints features as well as reviews of upcoming movies, theater, dining, music, and nightlife in the Jacksonville area. EU Jacksonville is distributed free every week. It’s available at public libraries, convenience stores, and drug stores. EU is also a great place to find discount coupons for upcoming events and free passes to movie screenings.
11. First Coast Parent
City: Jacksonville, FL
Category: Media
Telephone: (904) 294-5686
Description: The First Coast Parent is a monthly news magazine distributed for free throughout the area. It features monthly columns on parenting and health. Each issue also includes a calendar of events for parents and children. First Coast Parent is available at many public libraries, convenience stores, and bookstores.
12. H Magazine
City: Jacksonville, FL
Category: Media
Telephone: (904) 359-4058
Description: Published monthly by the Florida Times-Union, H Magazine is all about your health. The magazine offers regular columns like Ask the Experts and Focus on Fitness, as well as monthly features on organ donation and surviving breast cancer. Many doctors, surgeons, and medical specialists advertise in this free glossy, so if you’re looking for a physician, this is a good place to start. H Magazine is distributed in the first Sunday paper of the month. The publication can also be found for free in news boxes around the city as well as at your favorite public library.
13. Natural Awakenings Magazine – Northeast Florida
City: Jacksonville, FL
Category: Media
Telephone: (904) 551-4796
Description: From Chinese medicine to discovering the ancient healing traditions of the Shamans, this free monthly magazine covers it all. Natural Awakenings provides information on how to improve the quality of your life physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Pick up a copy of Natural Awakenings at your local library. The Web site also offers an easy-to-use Natural Living Directory.
14. Women’S Digest
City: Jacksonville, FL
Category: Media
Telephone: (904) 350-0807
Description: This free monthly tabloid addressing women’s issues is available at the library and in various news boxes around the city.
15. Wcwj Tv-17
City: Jacksonville, FL
Category: Media
Telephone: (904) 641-1700
Address: 9117 Hogan Rd.
Description: CW-17 is the city’s CW affiliate. The CW doesn’t run any locally produced news programs, but it does air a selection of popular syndicated programs as well as popular new programming such as The Vampire Diaries and Supernatural. Channel 17 is owned by Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc., a communications company based in Irving, Texas.