Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Independent news publishers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,068 independent news publishers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 30,702 professional contacts across them, including 4,364 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Dhaka the largest hub.
This list covers independent news publishers worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026. Country and city lists for independent news publishers follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest independent news publishers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,963 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “USA TODAY reflects the pulse of the nation with original, on-the-ground reporting centered on diverse perspectives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,797 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Axel Springer is a transatlantic family-owned media company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 874 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 734 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Seattle Times is the Northwest's most trusted source for independent journalism, connecting you to your community and the world in print, online and on the go.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 706 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since its inception in 1998, Prothom Alo has emerged as the largest Media Industry in Bangladesh during these 23 years of exertion.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 667 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Berdiri sejak 1971, visi Tempo adalah menjadi acuan dalam usaha meningkatkan kebebasan publik untuk berpikir dan berpendapat serta membangun peradaban yang menghargai kecerdasan…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 540 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1879, The Asahi Shimbun Company is one of Japan’s leading media organizations, committed to delivering trusted journalism and insightful content across print, digital…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 529 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Irish Times is Ireland's leading quality newspaper and delivers news, opinion and analysis to readers each week (source TGI).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 514 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ABC es el multimedio de mayor alcance y prestigio del Paraguay.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 454 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Créé en 2002, 20 Minutes est un éditeur d’information indépendant détenu à parts égales par le groupe SIPA-Ouest-France, éditeur du premier quotidien français payant et par le…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 449 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Grupo editorial dedicado a la producción de revistas y portales de Internet de alta calidad.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 445 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Verdens Gang AS is a media company whose objective is newspaper publication and related activity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 410 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Philippine Daily Inquirer is undeniably the country’s most credible and influential newspaper, with more than one million nationwide readers daily.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 338 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Universal.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 300 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Get real news and honest views with Sky News Australia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 282 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1987, Sound Publishing is the definitive source of news and information through the lens of our communities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 281 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Visit for Australia's premier coverage of national and international news with specialised in-depth sections for business, politics, media, higher education, arts, lifestyle and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 272 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DER STANDARD ist das führende österreichische Medienhaus für Qualitätsjournalismus und gesellschaftlichen Diskurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 255 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Estatuto Editorial: Entendemos que as publicações de natureza informativa devem ser independentes do poder político e do poder económico, porque só assim cumprem a sua função…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 252 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Onion is the world’s leading news publication, offering highly acclaimed, universally revered coverage of breaking national, international, and local news events.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 228 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wyborcza.pl - to miejsce rzetelnej informacji i dziennikarstwa na najwyższym poziomie.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 184 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Het Nieuwsblad follows current events from near and far.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 180 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “El 22 de septiembre de 2016 nació El Independiente, un medio digital que tiene como prioridad la información política, económica y la opinión.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 179 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “De Standaard, voor het eerst verschenen in 1918, is vandaag de grootste kwaliteitskrant in Vlaanderen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 179 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Fresno Bee was founded in 1922 and is part of the McClatchy Company, the third-largest newspaper company in the United States - a leading newspaper and internet publisher…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: independent news publishers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names independent news publishers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of independent news publishers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name independent news publishers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Independent news publishers worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among independent news publishers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for independent news publishers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “independent news publishers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names independent news publishers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among independent news publishers, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 4,364 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Independent news publishers by location
2 lists · largest firstEvery Independent news publishers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names independent news publishers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many independent news publishers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,068 independent news publishers worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
USA Today, headquartered in Mclean, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most independent news publishers?
The United States leads with 78 companies, followed by Italy (48). Every independent news publishers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most independent news publishers?
Dhaka leads with 20 headquartered companies, followed by Istanbul (18) and Madrid (14).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 4,364 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,068 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.