Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Journalism companies based in France
RevenueBase identified 224 journalism companies headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 7,181 professional contacts across them, including 1,908 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers journalism companies headquartered in France, 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 21, 2026.
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 journalism companies based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,080 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bayard has 120 press titles, 70 of which are in France, 5,500 books in the catalogues of its publishing houses, and publishes more than 800 new books every year.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 389 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’Express est une marque média de référence depuis 1953 : un hebdomadaire, un site internet, des applications, des podcasts, des newsletters.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 224 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Acteur majeur de la presse en région depuis près d'un siècle, leader sur sa zone de diffusion, le groupe Centre France puise sa force dans un maillage fin du territoire français à…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 205 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PLS est une régie de Presse Professionnelle qui compte aujourd'hui plus de 400 titres à 80% en régie exclusive ou accord commercial qui nous permettent de bâtir des plans adaptés…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 158 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Paris-based production TV and film production company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 123 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 121 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GROUPE LA DEPECHE DU MIDI intervient sur l’ensemble de la région Occitanie dans les domaines de l’information grand public de proximité, de la communication et de l’événementiel.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 107 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Stratégies, l’hebdomadaire de référence des professionnels de la communication, présente chaque semaine une information complète sur la communication, le marketing, la publicité…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le groupe Sipa Ouest-France est constitué de 5 quotidiens (Ouest-France – 1er quotidien de France, Le Maine Libre, Le Courrier de l’Ouest, Presse Océan, La Presse de la Manche)…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “6Medias is a independent general press agency, specializing in news content edition and management for online publishers and portals on any digital medium.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded by Tony Comiti, a Senior Correspondent, the Productions Tony Comiti press agency is now one of the principal independent suppliers of documentaries, reports and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CB News depuis plus de 20 ans le magazine hebdomadaire incontournable de la communication et des medias CBNewsletter la lettre quotidienne envoyée à 40 abonnés indispensable…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Bienvenue à l’EDJ, l'école de journalisme niçoise qui forme avec passion de futurs journalistes talentueux depuis plus de 30 ans.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Indigo Publications is an independent media company that publishes three news websites featuring exclusive content in English and French: Africa Intelligence, Intelligence Online…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Mediacités renoue avec les fondamentaux du journalisme en mettant à l’honneur l’enquête.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Spécialiste des contenus audio à destination de la radio, du net et des services mobiles, leader de la fourniture de contenus radiophoniques pour les radios indépendantes ou…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Editorialist is a global editorial service supporting companies across 50+ industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Samsa.fr accompagne les journalistes, les médias et les marques pour l’élaboration de stratégies éditoriales plurimédia et multi-supports (innovation éditoriale, business…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Société éditrice de deux hebdomadaires d'informations professionnelles et d'annonces légales en Paca.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Créé en 1979, Le Journal de l'Automobile est le média de référence de tous les professionnels du secteur qui ont besoin d'une information fiable, récente et commentée.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Un groupe proche et sans frontières.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L'AGENCE DE PRESSE L’Agence de presse Pi+(Presse Infos+) est dédiée aux médias d’information professionnelle, sectorielle et grand public.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mesinfos, votre nouveau média d’information locale, régionale et nationale.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 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: journalism 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 journalism companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of journalism companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name journalism 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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Journalism companies based in France at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 224 companies.
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 journalism 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in France whose own description of what they do matches “journalism 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 journalism 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 journalism companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- 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, 1,908 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 21, 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.
Journalism companies by metro
- Journalism companies in Paris52
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 journalism 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 journalism companies are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 224 journalism companies headquartered in France 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?
Ouest-France, headquartered in Rennes, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most journalism companies?
Paris leads with 52 headquartered companies, followed by Lyon (11) and Boulogne-Billancourt (6).
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 1,908 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 224 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 21, 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.