Norfolk: Communications

Newspapers and Magazines

The Virginian-Pilot is Norfolk's daily newspaper. The city is also home to military newspapers Flagship and Soundings. The Mace and Crown is the newspaper of Old Dominion University.

Television and Radio

Norfolk is served by 3 network affiliates and a network station from nearby Portsmouth. Norfolk is home to 11 FM radio stations (4 classical, plus public, talk, and music format stations) and 4 AM stations with public, religious, and music formats.

Media Information: Virginian-Pilot, 150 W. Brambleton Avenue, Norfolk, VA 23510; telephone (757)446-2000

Norfolk Online

City of Norfolk. Available www.norfolk.gov

Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce. Available www.hamptonroadschamber.com

Naval Station Norfolk. Available www.navstanorva.navy.mil

Norfolk Convention and Visitors Bureau. Available www.norfolkcvb.com/home

Norfolk Public Library system. Available www2.npl.lib.va.us

Norfolk Public Schools. Available www.nps.k12.va.us/index.htm

Virginian-Pilot newspaper. Available www.hamptonroads.com/pilotonline

Selected Bibliography

Flanders, Alan B., Bluejackets on the Elizabeth: A Maritime History of Portsmouth & Norfolk, Virginia from the Colonial Period to the Present (Portsmouth, VA: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum, 1998)

Lewis, Earl, In Their Own Interests: Race, Class & Power in Twentieth-Century Norfolk, Virginia (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993)

Parramore, Thomas C., Peter C. Stewart (Contributor), and Tommy L. Bogger (Contributor), Norfolk: The First Four Centuries (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1994)