Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 News and journalism startups worldwide
RevenueBase identified 182 news and journalism startups worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 7,341 professional contacts across them, including 2,233 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and New York the largest hub.
This list covers news and journalism startups 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 news and journalism startups 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 news and journalism startups worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,990 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Times Internet, we create premium digital products that simplify and enhance the lives of millions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,393 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Telegraph’s mission is to provide content that inspires people to have the perspective they want to progress in life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 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. | |||||
| 4 | 151 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “India's exciting news media start-up grows, one small step at a time.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 135 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At The Hustle, it's business as unusual.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ein Schreibtisch im 20.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We’re on a mission to craft the world’s most engaging news experience technology together with leading news media.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Here at the FT, gold-standard journalism is just the beginning.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Private Media is Australia’s leading independent digital media company with seven distinctive brands (Crikey, The Mandarin, SmartCompany, Startup Daily, Flying Solo, Business…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “InfoNegocios is a media that focuses on the news generated by companies and entrepreneurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The content catalysts for the digital ecosystem.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are the new newspaper.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Gazette is a startup publishing company with big ambitions to fill the gap on local news.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded to inspire a renaissance in high quality journalism in the UK, Mill Media has received financial backing from Sir Mark Thompson, the former head of the BBC and New York…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Lenfest Institute for Journalism is the first-of-its-kind organization whose sole mission is to develop and support sustainable business models for great local journalism.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SODP publishes insights, news, research, and educational content that help digital publishing and news media professionals grow their audiences and forge successful media models…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Arabian Stories is an interactive digital news media company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Massive Alliance is a media technology company, building digital solutions for people and publishers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “O portal é uma referência consolidada como mídia digital da região do ABC Paulista.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “It’s where journalists from anywhere in the world come to work.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “TechSavvy er Danmarks største, digitale medie for startupøkosystemet.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “NewsTeam builds modern publishing tools for newsrooms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “C’era una volta un mondo in cui le notizie sui giornali urlavano sempre di cose incredibili, sconvolgenti, assurde, pazzesche.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “dokuz8HABER, Türkiye’nin dört bir yanından 1100’ün üzerinde yurttaş habercisi, 50’nin üzerinde yerel gazeteciden oluşan haber ağı ve anlık haber akışıyla öne çıkan bir dijital…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Gazetteer revitalizes local news in American cities by distributing must-read stories direct to subscribers, bypassing social media and search engines.” 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: news and journalism startups. 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 news and journalism startups.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of news and journalism startups, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name news and journalism startups. 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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News and journalism startups 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 news and journalism startups, 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 news and journalism startups are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “news and journalism startups”. 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 news and journalism startups), 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 news and journalism startups, 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, 2,233 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.
News and journalism startups by location
1 lists · largest firstEvery News and journalism startups list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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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 news and journalism startups, 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 news and journalism startups are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 182 news and journalism startups 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?
Times Internet, headquartered in Gurgaon, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most news and journalism startups?
The United States leads with 42 companies. Every news and journalism startups list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most news and journalism startups?
New York leads with 5 headquartered companies, followed by Istanbul (4) and New Delhi (4).
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 2,233 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 182 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.