From its inception, The Wall Street Journal has provided reliable information for investors. It has become the quintessential source for specific facts as well as detailed studies of companies and industries.

USA Today, targeted at a general, less sophisticated audience than other national newspapers, was credited with an innovative strategy for successful journalism, even as it was criticized for lowering the standards of the journalistic profession.

From the beginning, narrative fiction television tended to portray and reinforce the division between the private domestic sphere and the public workplace.

During its relatively brief history, the television broadcasting industry has grown from a few experimental networks to become one of the most profitable industries in the United States...

Martha Stewart successfully transformed her interests in cooking, home decorating, gardening, and entertaining into a multimillion dollar business.

Based initially on the principle of condensing articles from other publications, Reader’s Digest has become one of the most successful and enduring periodicals in U.S. business history.

Radio broadcasts at once drew audiences to advertising and revolutionized entertainment in American households.

Because print has been necessary for businesses throughout American history, the printing industry has been an integral part of American corporate life.

Early newspapers fostered the growth of democracy and promoted citizen participation in national, state, and local governments.

The founding of NBC established the structure within which U.S. radio, and later television, stations would operate: a system of local independent affiliates to a nationwide network.

With federal controls on greedy, corrupt, and unlawful business practices ineffectual at best and nonexistent at worst, a wave of muckraking journalism arose during the late nineteenth century.

The motion-picture industry, part of the greater entertainment industry, employs vast numbers of people in the creation and distribution of its products.

The magazine industry was one of the major disseminators of information, cultural material, and entertainment before the advent of broadcast media.

The mainstream American novel has evolved as a fundamentally individualcentered form of representation.

By raising the consciousness of consumers to the shocking conditions in the stockyards, slaughterhouses, and meatpacking facilities of Chicago, The Jungle helped launch federal regulation of the food industry.

The how-to-succeed genre became an increasingly important and lucrative segment of the book publishing industry from the twentieth into the twenty-first century.

Fortune was the first true American financial magazine.