Columbia: Communications

Newspapers and Magazines

Columbia's two daily newspapers are the Columbia Daily Tribune, which appears every weekday evening and Saturday and Sunday evening, and the Columbia Missourian, which is the morning paper. The weekly Missourian Weekend is a general interest newspaper. People in the area also read the Boone County Journal, Columbia Business Times, Columbia Senior Times, and the Centralia Fireside Guard.

Publications affiliated with the University of Missouri include the monthly Journal of Chemical Crystallography, semi-annuals Journal of Dispute Resolution and Theatre Topics, and the quarterlies Missouri Historical Review and Missouri Law Review. Other publications coming out of Columbia are the Missouri Free Press and Sheep Breeder and Sheepman, the quarterlies Voice of the Diabetic, Monthly Realtor, Ruralist, MIZZOU Magazine, an MU alumni quarterly, and School and Community, a journal of the Missouri State Teacher's Association. Today's Farmer appears ten times a year.

Television and Radio

The city has four television network affiliates and one cable television network. The formats of the 20 FM and 8 AM radio stations available to Columbia listeners cover the gamut of musical tastes along with news, talk, and public broadcasting

Media Information: Columbia Daily Tribune, 101 N. Fourth St., PO Box 798, Columbia, MO 65205; telephone (573)815-1500.Columbia Missourian, 221 S 8th St., PO Box 917, Columbia, MO 65202; telephone (573)882-5700

Columbia Online

City of Columbia, Missouri. Available www.gocolumbiamo.com

Columbia Chamber of Commerce. Available www.chamber.columbia.mo.us

Columbia Convention and Visitors Bureau. Available www.visitcolumbiamo.com

Columbia Daily Tribune. Available www.showmenews.com

Columbia, Missouri Economic Development. Available www.columbiaredi.com

Columbia Public Schools. Available www.columbia.k12.mo.us

State Historical Society of Missouri. Available www.system.missouri.edu/shs

Selected Bibliography

Batterson, Paulina Ann, The First Fifty Years (Columbia Public Relations Committee, Columbia Chamber of Commerce, 1965)

Havig, Alan, Columbia, An Illustrated History