The Wall Street Journal is considered the most widely-read periodical in the nation's business and investment community. Information in the paper is also distributed to many Dow Jones outlets, including news service and specialized financial and commodity reports. The lead time for feature and news coverage is one day to one week. The lead time for The Wall Street Journal Reports is three to five months, although stories are often developed during the two or three months immediately preceding the issue. The lead time for Marketplace and Enterprise is two months. Deadlines are at 5:30pm ET for in-depth business and Marketplace stories and 3pm ET for shorter stories.

New York Post is a tabloid-format newspaper aimed at the general public in the New York City area. The publication covers local and regional news, business, sports, entertainment, celebrities, fashion and travel.

San Francisco Chronicle is the largest newspaper in northern California and the second largest in the Western United States. It is a regional, daily newspaper with circulation that stretches from the Oregon border to Santa Barbara and includes Silicon Valley. Reporters will agree to an informal verbal non-disclosure if they are confident that either they have the exclusive or that no one else will be reporting the story before they do.

The Daily Record is a Scottish daily newspaper that covers a broad range of national, regional and local news, with a particular focus on stories relevant to people across Scotland. Its coverage includes politics, current affairs, crime, sport, entertainment, business and human-interest stories, as well as developments affecting Scottish communities. The newspaper also reports on major UK and international events and publishes opinion and features alongside its news coverage.

WRAL-TV is the local NBC affiliate for the greater Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina area. The station broadcasts locally on channel 5 and is a sister-station to Raleigh's Fox affiliate, WRAZ-TV. WRAL-TV hit the airwaves in 1956 as an NBC affiliate and switched to ABC affiliation in 1962. The station swapped networks again in 1985, this time with CBS, before returning to NBC in 2016.