The Tennessean, the daily paper, is published every morning and prints the Opry lineup in its Friday edition. Nashville Scene, a weekly alternative newspaper, offers the most in-depth coverage of local events. Urban Journal is a weekly alternative newspaper representing Nashville's African American community; Nashville Pride, a weekly, is read by a large portion of the African American community. Professional periodicals published in Nashville serve the furniture, insurance, banking, logging, agriculture, and paper industries, and the music and education fields. Numerous directories and newsletters are published in Nashville.
Nashville-area television viewers are served by seven stations affiliated with PBS, ABC, NBC, CBS, UPN, and Fox plus two independents. 30 AM and FM radio stations in Nashville offer educational, cultural, religious, and foreign language programming as well as rock and roll, gospel, blues, jazz, and country music.
Media Information: The Tennessean , 1100 Broadway St., Nashville, TN 37203; telephone (615)259-8000
Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County. Available www.nashville.gov
Metropolitan Nashville-Davidson County Schools. Available www.nashville-schools.davidson.k12.tn.us
Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce (including JobsLink). Available www.nashvillechamber.com
Nashville Convention and Visitors Bureau. Available www.nashvillecvb.com
Nashville/Davidson County Public Library. Available www.nashv.lib.tn.us
The Nashville Digest. Available www.nashvilledigest.com
Tennessean. Available www.tennessean.com
Feiler, Bruce S., Dreaming Out Loud: Garth Brooks, Wynonna Judd, Wade Hayes, and the Changing Face of Nashville (New York: Spike, 1999)
Goodstein, Anita S., Nashville, 1789–1860: From Frontier to City. (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1989)
Squire, James D. The Secrets of the Hopewell Box: Stolen Elections, Southern Politics, and a City's Coming of Age. (New York: Times Books/Random House, 1996)