Memphis: Communications
Memphis: Communications
Newspapers and Magazines
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.
Television and Radio
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
Memphis Online
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
Selected Bibliography
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)
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'Obesity overtakes smoking for medical costs' says visiongain Anti-Obesity report.
M2 Presswire; 8/20/2003; 700+ words
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'Obesity Overtakes Smoking for Medical Costs' says visiongain's Anti-Obesity report.
M2 Presswire; 8/20/2003; 700+ words
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Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 3/17/2005; 700+ words
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Obesity programs fight to enter disease management.
Newspaper article from: Disease State Management; 7/1/1997; 700+ words
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Obesity Space Leaner with Pullout by Pfizer.
Magazine article from: BIOWORLD Today; 11/7/2008; ; 700+ words
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Obesity differences between African-American men and women
Magazine article from: Journal of the National Medical Association; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
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Obesity epidemic expected to cut life expectancy, experts say.
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Obesity in Latin American women and children
Magazine article from: The Journal of Nutrition; 9/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; Obesity in Latin American Women and Children1...were used to assess maternal and child obesity in Latin American and Caribbean countries...U.S. residents of Mexican descent. Obesity in women, a body mass index (BMI...
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Obesity Prevention in Pediatrics: A Pilot Pediatric Resident Curriculum Intervention on Nutrition and Obesity Education and Counseling
Magazine article from: Journal of the National Medical Association; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...the start of the study. Introduction: Obesity is a highly burdensome public health issue...Between 1980-2000, the prevalence of obesity among children and adolescents nearly tripled. Obesity subjects youth to social stigmatization...
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Obesity and the African-American adolescent in Mississippi: an overview.(Review Article)
Magazine article from: Southern Medical Journal; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Abstract: Obesity is one of the most common conditions seen...hypertension, and dyslipidemia. Youth obesity has increased at an alarming rate in the...the world. Given the high prevalence of obesity among adults in the United States, it...
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Obesity
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy through Adolescence
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Obesity Surgery
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed.
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Nutrition, Obesity
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Aging
NUTRITION, OBESITY Obesity refers to the presence of excess total body fat (i.e., increased adipose tissue, or increased adiposity). Obesity is assessed by many different methods, and its exact definition varies...
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obesity
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
obesity is most commonly defined as a condition...Insurance Company Tables. Like many aspects of obesity, use of life insurance tables as the sole...socioeconomic classes. To counter such biases, obesity can be determined by body mass index...
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Childhood Obesity
Book article from: Nutrition and Well-Being A to Z
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