Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 News and publishing companies worldwide
RevenueBase identified 2,231 news and publishing companies worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 182,003 professional contacts across them, including 28,600 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers news and publishing companies 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 publishing companies 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 publishing companies worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7,886 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BCCL (Times of India) is one of India's largest media company with iconic brands like The Times of India and Economic Times.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 5,553 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “HT Media Group is among India's largest media and entertainment conglomerates.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 5,216 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 4,664 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gannett Co, Inc.(NYSE: GCI) is a diversified media company with expansive reach at the national and local level dedicated to empowering and enriching communities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 2,437 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As one of the nation’s largest global, diversified information, services and media companies, Hearst has been leading with purpose and integrity and innovating for more than a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 2,407 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SPH Media is a leading media group, with operations in the publishing of newspapers, magazines, and books in both print and digital editions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 2,333 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Somos la empresa de medios de comunicación más antigua de Colombia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 2,317 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Société OUEST-FRANCE Fondateur du Comité éditorial François Régis Hutin Président du Directoire Louis Échelard - Directeur de la publication Le statut associatif : Depuis…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 2,191 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 2,134 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Media24 is South Africa’s leading media company, with a strong presence in digital media, book publishing and television.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 2,005 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Guardian News & Media (GNM) publishes theguardian.com, one of the world’s leading English-language newspaper websites.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 1,947 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We’re Reach plc and we’re proud to be the UK and Ireland’s largest commercial news publisher.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 1,858 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sabah-atv-ahaber-takvim-fotomac-yeniasır-vav tv-fikriyat-daily sabah-aspor-anews-apara-a2-atvavrupa-minika-minikaçocuk-minikago-turkuvaz kitap-turkuvaz çocuk-sahı kitap-muhit…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 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. | |||||
| 15 | 1,728 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Público, Comunicação Social S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 1,615 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “One of the largest Media Conglomerates in India, Patrika Group is known for its journalistic values and high credibility.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 1,597 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a media company with a difference.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 1,585 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lee Enterprises is a major subscription and advertising platform and a leading provider of local news and information, with daily newspapers, rapidly growing digital products and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 1,530 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Express Network Private Limited is the online arm of Express Publications (Madurai) Limited,(formerly Indian Express (Madurai) Limited) founded by Late Shri Ramnath Goenka.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 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. | |||||
| 21 | 1,372 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 1,331 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With around 10,500 employees and over 500 brands world-wide, Hubert Burda Media is one of Germany’s largest technology and media companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1,320 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Driven by the energy and passion of our people, Cox Media Group (CMG) is creating innovative ways to deliver news and information, tell compelling stories, entertain our…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1,287 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Som Nordens största medieföretag, med verksamhet i 13 länder, hjälper vi medborgare och organisationer att fungera i ett demokratiskt samhälle.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1,115 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dubai Media Incorporated (DMI) achieved through its multiple media channels (press, radio and TV) remarkable success and prestigious status on the level of media in the Arab world.” 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 publishing companies. 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 publishing companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of news and publishing companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name news and publishing companies. 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 publishing companies 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 publishing companies, 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 publishing companies are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “news and publishing companies”. 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 publishing companies), 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 publishing companies, 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, 28,600 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 publishing companies by location
12 lists · largest firstEvery News and publishing companies list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- News and publishing companies based in the United States403
- News and publishing companies based in Germany159
- News and publishing companies based in India131
- News and publishing companies based in Italy122
- News and publishing companies based in the United Kingdom121
- News and publishing companies based in Brazil98
- News and publishing companies based in France61
- News and publishing companies based in Canada47
- News and publishing companies based in Australia41
- News and publishing companies based in the Netherlands39
- News and publishing companies based in Spain35
- News and publishing companies based in Sweden25
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 publishing companies, 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 publishing companies are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 2,231 news and publishing companies 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?
Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd. The Times Of India, headquartered in Mumbai, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most news and publishing companies?
The United States leads with 403 companies, followed by Germany (159) and India (131). Every news and publishing companies list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most news and publishing companies?
London leads with 33 headquartered companies, followed by New York (27) and Roma (20).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
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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.