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Top 25 Journalism organizations based in Germany
RevenueBase identified 162 journalism organizations headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 2,902 professional contacts across them, including 576 with verified work emails. Berlin is the largest hub.
This list covers journalism organizations headquartered in Germany, 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.
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 organizations based in Germany
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 402 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Die WeltN24 GmbH macht unter der Marke WELT journalistische Angebote für alle relevanten Informationsplattformen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 335 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “DW Akademie is Deutsche Welle's center for international media development, journalism training and knowledge transfer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 121 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Der journalist ist das größte und wichtigste Magazin für Journalismus in Deutschland.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 115 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “WHO WE ARE - WAN-IFRA is the World Association of News Publishers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die NW Mediengruppe hat sich vom Zeitungsverlag zum zukunftsorientierten Medienunternehmen entwickelt.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 90 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Landesanstalt für Medien NRW ist eine öffentliche Einrichtung, staatsfern und wirtschaftlich unabhängig organisiert.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We accompany you from traineeship to chief editor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Die Akademie der Bayerischen Presse e.V.(ABP) ist eine gemeinnützige Institution für die Aus- und Weiterbildung in Journalismus, PR und Unternehmenskommunikation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Hessische/Niedersächsische Allgemeine (HNA) ist DAS Medienhaus in Nordhessen und Südniedersachsen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Deutsche Journalistenschule is a higher education company based out of Hultschiner Str.8, München, Bavaria, Germany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Reporter ohne Grenzen dokumentiert Verstöße gegen die Presse- und Informationsfreiheit weltweit und alarmiert die Öffentlichkeit, wenn Journalisten und deren Mitarbeiter in Gefahr…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Kernkompetenz der Westfalenpost liegt im Lokalen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Das Oelder Verlagshaus Holterdorf ist ein modernes, vielseitig ausgerichtetes Medienunternehmen mit Sitz in Oelde.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Guter Journalismus ist wichtiger denn je.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die WEIMER MEDIA GROUP ist ein für Qualitätsjournalismus stehendes Verlagshaus.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Der Verlag Gruner+Jahr, die ZEIT und der SPIEGEL sind Träger der renommierten Henri-Nannen-Journalistenschule in Hamburg, die 1979 mit dem ersten Lehrgang startete.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Jugendpresse Deutschland is a German youth organisation for young media makers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Neuen deutschen Medienmacher*innen sind ein bundesweites Netzwerk von Medienschaffenden mit oder ohne Einwanderungsgeschichte.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Der Deutsche Journalisten-Verband (DJV) ist mit rund Mitgliedern eine der größten Journalismus-Organisationen in Deutschland und Europa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Der Deutsche Fachjournalisten-Verband (DFJV) ist ein Berufsverband und Dienstleister für aktuell über Journalisten, die sich auf ein Fach, Ressort oder Themengebiet spezialisiert…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Der MVFP Medienverband der freien Presse e.V.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagshaus GmbH & Co.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Publikationen des 1981 gegründeten Presse Fachverlages sind auf die Themen Vertrieb, Verkauf und Marketing von Zeitungen, Zeitschriften und sogenannten Non-Press-Produkten…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hier werden die Trends, Innovationen und aktuelle Herausforderungen in den Medien diskutiert.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We promote journalism that can meet the demands of the future.” 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: journalism organizations. 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 organizations.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of journalism organizations, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name journalism organizations. 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 organizations based in Germany at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Germany, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Germany, over 162 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 organizations, 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 Germany whose own description of what they do matches “journalism organizations”. 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 organizations), 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 organizations, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Germany 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, 576 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.
Journalism organizations by metro
- Journalism organizations in Berlin41
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 organizations, 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 organizations are there based in Germany?
RevenueBase identified 162 journalism organizations headquartered in Germany 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?
WELT, headquartered in Berlin, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most journalism organizations?
Berlin leads with 41 headquartered companies, followed by Hamburg (16) and Munchen (11).
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 576 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 162 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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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.
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