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Top 25 Local news outlets based in Canada
RevenueBase identified 100 local news outlets headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 2,197 professional contacts across them, including 309 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.
This list covers local news outlets headquartered in Canada, 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 local news outlets based in Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 667 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Toronto Star is Canada’s largest newspaper.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 268 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Winnipeg Free Press is an award-winning daily local newspaper serving Winnipeg and surrounding areas in Manitoba, Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 163 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Torstar Corporation is a leading Canadian media and data company that aims to help people better understand the world and each other.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 145 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CBC News services keep Canadians at home and abroad informed about their communities, their country and the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are Edmonton's most trusted voice, providing a professional perspective on news, business, sports and entertainment that's read by more northern Albertans than any other daily…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 88 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “With a bold transformation and a complete reimagining of news media, the Calgary Herald has changed how it creates and delivers content to audiences to focus primarily on local…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “With a bold transformation and a complete reimagining of news media, the Windsor Star has changed how it creates and delivers content to audiences to focus primarily on local news…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Now Toronto is the city’s go-to digital destination for news, culture, and entertainment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “About Us Daily Hive is a Canadian-born online news source, established in 2008, that creates compelling, hyperlocal content.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Your news at your fingertips, in print, online and mobile.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Your news at your fingertips, in print, online and mobile.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Post City Magazines, now celebrating 30 successful years in business, is an independent publishing company in Toronto with nine community magazines and a new site, TRNTO.com.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Overstory Media Group is a community media company that builds trusted local publications, including the Georgia Straight, Vancouver Tech Journal, Capital Daily (Victoria), Fraser…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “EnBeauce.com : Votre média d'informations régionales 100 % numérique Depuis 2006, EnBeauce.com connecte la région et ses communautés à travers une couverture complète des…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “University of Winnipeg and downtown community newspaper dedicated to arts, culture and news.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We highlight the positive, uplifting and heartwarming stories for the neighbours who live, work and play locally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At The Sarnia Journal, we know that quality, independent journalism is essential to a thriving community, telling important stories, holding power to account, keeping residents…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “It has been more than 100 years since the words were put to paper, but the pages still tell a story.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lancé le 1er octobre 2020, « Nouvelles d’Ici » est un média 100% local, indépendant, à but non lucratif et zéro déchet, né dans l'arrondissement LaSalle à Montréal.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Review is an award-winning weekly community newspaper, proudly serving the community since 1893-132 years at the heart of hyperlocal news.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Prince Albert Daily Herald began as the Prince Albert Advocate weekly newspaper in 1894.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Welcome to Capital Daily, the West Coast’s premier independent news startup.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SaskToday.ca is a member of the Harvard Online family.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We cover the communities of Oyama, Coldstream, Lavington, Lumby, Cherryville, Vernon, Silver Star, Falkland, North Westside, the Okanagan Indian Band, Spallumcheen, Armstrong, the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Urbanicity is Hamilton's source for news, reviews and the best local hot spots.” 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: local news outlets. 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 local news outlets.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of local news outlets, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name local news outlets. 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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Local news outlets based in Canada at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Canada, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Canada, over 100 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 local news outlets, 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 Canada whose own description of what they do matches “local news outlets”. 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 local news outlets), 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 local news outlets, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Canada 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, 309 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.
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 local news outlets, 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 local news outlets are there based in Canada?
RevenueBase identified 100 local news outlets headquartered in Canada 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?
Toronto Star, headquartered in Toronto, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most local news outlets?
Toronto leads with 6 headquartered companies, followed by Vancouver (4) and Calgary (3).
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 309 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 100 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.