Memphis is served by The Commercial Appeal, a morning-circulated daily newspaper. Business and local news is reported weekday mornings in The Daily News, while the Memphis Business Journal and Tri-State Defender are published weekly. Memphis Magazine is the area's monthly general-interest magazine. The Memphis Flyer is a weekly tabloid that discusses the arts, entertainment, and lifestyles, while the Mid-South Hunting & Fishing News is a bi-weekly tabloid covering outdoor recreation. Special-interest publications originating in Memphis focus on such subjects as environmental legislation, poetry, and hunting, and such industries as glass and metal, trucking, rice and cotton growing, and other agricultural concerns.
Memphis-area television viewers are served by seven stations: affiliates of ABC, CBS, NBC, UPN, Fox, PBS, and one independent. 33 AM and FM radio stations present Memphis audiences with a range of programming from classical, jazz, blues, folk, bluegrass, reggae, easy listening, contemporary, and country music to religious, news, public radio, talk-show, agricultural, and educational broadcasts.
Media Information: The Commercial Appeal, E. W. Scripps Co., 495 Union Avenue, Memphis, TN 38103; telephone (901)529-2211. The Daily News, 193 Jefferson Avenue, Memphis, TN 38103; telephone (901)523-1561; fax (901)526-5813
City of Memphis Home Page. Available www.ci.memphis.tn.us
Commercial Appeal. Available www.commercialappeal.com
Daily News. Available www.memphisdailynews.com
Memphis Chamber of Commerce. Available www.memphischamber.com
Memphis City Schools. Available www.memphis-schools.k12.tn.us
Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureau. Available www.memphistravel.com
Memphis Shelby County Public Library. Available www.memphislibrary.lib.tn.us
Tennessee Department of Tourist Development. Available www.tourism.state.tn.us/index.html
Faulkner, William, The Reivers (New York: Random House, 1962)
Grisham, J, The Firm (New York: Doubleday, 1991)
Guralnick, Peter, Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1994)