Columbia's daily (morning) newspaper, The State, is also South Carolina's major paper. In addition, the city publishes three weekly newspapers including the Columbia Star, which covers human interest and legal news, Free Times, Columbia's free paper, and Columbia Black News. About 20 magazines and journals are published in Columbia, including the Business and Economic Review, published by the University of South Carolina's Moore School of Business, Columbia Metropolitan Magazine, and South Carolina Game and Fish, and three magazines directed at farmers.
Five television stations broadcast in Columbia, affiliates of ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX, as well as South Carolina Educational Television. Three cable stations also serve the area; a government information station is available on a local cable network. Six AM and 14 FM radio stations offer music, information, news, call-in talk programs, and religious programming.
Media Information: The State, Knight-Ridder, Inc., P.O. Box 1333, Columbia, SC 29202; telephone (800)888-5353
Central South Carolina Alliance. Available www.centralsc.org
City of Columbia Home Page. Available www.columbiasc.net
Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center. Available www.columbiacvb.com
Columbia Today. Available www.columbiatoday.com
Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce. Available www.columbiachamber.com/new/index.htm
Richland County Public Library. Available www.richland.lib.sc.us
Richland School District One. Available www.richlandone.org
Richland School District Two. Available my.richland2.org/portal/server.pt#
South Carolina State Library. Available www.state.sc.us/scsl
The State. Available www.thestate.com
Edgar, Walter B. and Deborah K. Wolley, Columbia: Portrait of a City, 1976.
Maxey, Russell, South Carolina's Historic Columbia: Yesterday and Today in Photographs, 1980.
Moore, John Hammond, Columbia and Richland County: A South Carolina Community, 1740–1990, 1993.
Rawl, Miriam Freeman, From the Ashes of Ruin (Columbia, S.C.: Summerhouse Press, 1999)