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Top 19 News companies based in the United Kingdom

RevenueBase identified 82 news companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 18,566 professional contacts across them, including 4,130 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.

This list covers news companies headquartered in the United Kingdom, 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 21, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
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18,566Contacts tracked
4,130Verified emails
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The 19 largest news companies based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size
Top 19 of 82 news companies based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 21, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to news companies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202610001+6,785 contacts →

Strong evidence

“The BBC is the world leader in global breaking news, providing trusted, accurate, impartial and independent news on TV, radio, online and social media to hundreds of millions of…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
2Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 20261,001-5,0006,343 contacts →

Strong evidence

“About the Financial Times The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading business news organisations, recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
3Strong evidenceCanary Wharf, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 20261,001-5,0001,947 contacts →

Strong 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 21, 2026
4Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 20261,001-5,0001,393 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 21, 2026
5Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 20261,001-5,000442 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“dmg media’s brands deliver highly engaging, trusted content to millions of loyal customers around the globe, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
6Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026201-500369 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Breaking news and the biggest stories from the UK and around the world.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
7Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026201-500171 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Daily Mail, Metro, The i Paper, New Scientist, and more; every day, millions come to our platforms to read, watch, listen, share and discover.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
8Indirect evidenceBelfast, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026501-1,00060 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“BBC Northern Ireland is a broadcast media company based out of BBC Broadcasting House, Belfast and BBC Radio Foyle, Londonderry”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
9Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20017 contacts →

Strong evidence

“We’re Europe’s largest independent news services company.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
10Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20010 contacts →

Strong evidence

“The Media Leader is the media industry’s leading source of news analysis, data, and opinion.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
11Strong evidenceMilford Haven, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-2006 contacts →

Strong evidence

“A weekly print edition newspaper, four local news websites, a national website for Wales, three magazines, an online radio station, our own film unit, and a nascent online…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
12Indirect evidencePeterborough, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-504 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Peterborough Telegraph is a media production company based out of Peterborough, United Kingdom.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
13Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 20261-104 contacts →

Strong evidence

“The News Media Coalition, or ‘NMC’, is an international industry organisation comprising reputable news brands.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
14Strong evidenceBedford, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 20261-103 contacts →

Strong evidence

“The Bedford Independent was founded to provide the people of Bedford with a modern news desk that would give them easy access to genuine news.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
15Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 20261-103 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Triangle News is the UK’s leading news, features, pictures and video agency providing award winning stories to the national and international press.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
16Strong evidenceReading, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 20261-102 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Reading Today is Reading’s independent news media company.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
17Strong evidenceDerry, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-2001 contacts →

Strong evidence

“At the heart of the community, brings all the latest news, sports and features from across the county.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
18Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-2001 contacts →

Strong evidence

News That Matter”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
19Strong evidenceEgremont, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 20261-101 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Formed in 2020, The Herdwick News aims to keep the local community at its heart while expanding into the wider national interests, all while promoting local teams, charities and…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026

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News companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 21, 2026
22.2%Verified-email coverage
226.4Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
42.7%Largest-city concentration · London
Sep 21, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
35
11-50
15
51-200
10
201-500
5
501-1,000
5
1,001-5,000
7
5,001-10,000
1
10001+
2

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 82 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 news 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 the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “news 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 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 companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom 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, 4,130 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
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News companies by metro

  • News companies in London35

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 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 companies are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 82 news companies headquartered in the United Kingdom 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?

BBC News, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most news companies?

London leads with 35 headquartered companies, followed by Farnham (7) and Birmingham (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 4,130 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 82 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.