You can approach these industries with a five-fold strategy. Locate articles in the business press. Locate articles in the popular and regional presses. Locate and contact related trade and other industry associations. Find trade journals that are associated with the industry.
Check sources that compile lists of data resources for government and other agencies.
Locate articles in the popular and regional presses Often an industry appears as a trend in the popular press before it appears in the business press. This is true of many products and industries that may seem more like a fad than an established industry. In Dow Jones Interactive you can limit your search to a specific group of publications. Use Lexis-Nexis News and select major papers from the source list. In Lexis-Nexis News , select U.S. News and then select the region of the country or the world that you want to search and look up your industry.