Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 News publishers based in Italy
RevenueBase identified 187 news publishers headquartered in Italy as of September 2026 and tracks 4,762 professional contacts across them, including 947 with verified work emails. Roma is the largest hub.
This list covers news publishers headquartered in Italy, 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 news publishers based in Italy
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 903 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ANSA is the no.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 771 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “GEDI Gruppo Editoriale is Italy's leading digital media company, a national leader in news with publications such as La Repubblica and Huffington Post.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 559 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “La Stampa is a leading European news organization based in Turin, Italy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 378 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Citynews è il Digital Publisher fondato nel 2010 da Luca Lani, Fernando Diana e altri founder e ha tra i suoi soci alcuni fra i principali investitori italiani nel digitale.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 281 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Publisher di quotidiani e brand editoriali che hanno unito le loro forze per un progetto informativo e innovativo 4 quotidiani d'informazione: Quotidiano Nazionale, Il Resto del…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 180 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Il Gruppo Adnkronos è un sistema multimediale e multicanale di informazione e comunicazione, articolato su più canali di diffusione, formati di produzione e strumenti di…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 149 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Netweek è leader nell’informazione locale televisiva, cartacea e digital.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 134 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Over fifty years of history.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Non siamo più (solo) una tv.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Il Foglio Quotidiano, meglio conosciuto come Il Foglio, è un quotidiano a diffusione nazionale fondato il 30 gennaio 1996 da Giuliano Ferrara e ora diretto da Claudio Cerasa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Editoriale Bresciana S.p.A.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dal 1997 VareseNews accompagna la crescita del digitale tra le comunità.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Primo quotidiano di informazione della provincia di Varese, La Prealpina, con una tiratura quotidiana di copie, viene letta mediamente da lettori/giorno e distribuita in Lombardia…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Verità è un quotidiano indipendente, a diffusione nazionale, fondato e diretto da Maurizio Belpietro, già direttore responsabile del Giornale, di Panorama, di Libero e del…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gli Stati Generali è un giornale digitale con notizie e storie rilevanti di interesse pubblico, inchieste, analisi, commenti.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SEIF (Società Editoriale Il Fatto) è un editore multimediale indipendente, fondato nel 2009 in Italia, che opera in due principali aree di business: Publishing e Media Content.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Reclam Edizioni e Comunicazione Srl è l’editore del settimanale Ravenna & Dintorni, il più qualificato e diffuso settimanale di informazione politica, economica e culturale della…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Brand News è una testata giornalistica che si occupa di pubblicità, marketing, media e creatività.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SPORTcom nasce nel 2019 dall’esigenza di coniugare una moderna visione dell’editoria con testate storiche.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Editoriale Il Cittadino SRL edita lo storico settimanale Il Cittadino, distribuito nel territorio della provincia di Monza e della Brianza e fondato nel 1899, oltre al quotidiano…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Occhi srl, nata da Edizioni Idee di Diego Mascotto, è la case editrice delle 4 edizioni territoriali di Occhi.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Il Gruppo Soged edita tre giornali cartacei (Il Piccolo, Il Novese e L'Ovadese) e otto siti internet (Il Piccolo, AlessandriaNews, NoviOnline, AcquiNews, CasaleNotizie…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondata nel 2019 e diretta dal giornalista professionista Andrea Nicosia, la testata opera in totale autonomia editoriale, senza usufruire di alcun contributo pubblico.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Attualità, economia, sport, cultura e spettacolo, territorio: sono i canali di informazione, corredati da numerose immagini e collocati nel sito in maniera chiara e leggibile, che…” 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 publishers. 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 publishers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of news publishers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name news publishers. 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 publishers based in Italy at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Italy, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Italy, over 187 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 publishers, 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 Italy whose own description of what they do matches “news publishers”. 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 publishers), 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 publishers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Italy 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, 947 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 publishers by metro
- News publishers in Roma33
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 publishers, 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 publishers are there based in Italy?
RevenueBase identified 187 news publishers headquartered in Italy 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?
ANSA, headquartered in Roma, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most news publishers?
Roma leads with 33 headquartered companies, followed by Milano (15) and Milano Mi (10).
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 947 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 187 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.