The Boston Globe focuses on news for the general public in the New England area as well as state, national and international news. Other coverage areas include business, healthcare, technology, features, lifestyle, arts and sports. There is also an emphasis on regional and suburban coverage. Lead times vary depending on the department.

This 24-hour sports programming network provides an extensive package of live and taped sporting events, including NFL football, NBA basketball, NASCAR, Major League Baseball, and NCAA college football and basketball. It also presents an extensive schedule of sports news programming throughout the day, in addition to special interviews with sports personalities and guest commentary about the sporting world. The network reaches more than 98 million homes in the U.S. and 147 countries worldwide.

The Athletic is an online sports site featuring in-depth coverage analysis and longform coverage from local and national sportswriters. Sections include NHL, MLB, NFL, NBA, NCAAF, NCAAM, NCAAW and offers extensive local coverage for San Francisco, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Minnesota, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Diego and St. Louis as well as Calgary AB, Edmonton AB, Montreal in English and French, Ottawa ON, Toronto, Vancouver BC and Winnipeg MB.

Star Tribune is a broadsheet written for the general public in the Twin Cities. There are separate Minneapolis and St. Paul editions. Although they focus on news in their respective regions, both editions offer the same international, national, state, metro and consumer news.

WLS-TV is the ABC affiliate for the Chicago market. The station is owned by the ABC Owned Television Stations subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. WLS-TV broadcasts locally on channel 7. WLS-TV airs local news daily, mornings and evenings. Each year the station broadcasts six community parades celebrating the ethnic richness and diversity of the city. Send press releases to the assignment desk by fax and include each page with a subject heading and a page number in the right hand corner. Do not call the assignment desk at 9am CT, as the news department conducts a planning meeting at that time. The news department does NOT accept any unsolicited story ideas or submissions via e-mail; send them via fax. Press releases can be emailed to wls.planning@abc.com for non-urgent, non-breaking news. In the event of breaking news, please call +1 (312) 750 7070. ABC7 News DOES NOT accept press releases and media advisories via email . They ask that these be faxed directly to the news desk at +1 (312) 899 8019.