The most prominent news companies ranked by global prominence, funding activity, and market position. Showing the top 50 out of 12,914 companies tracked on Fsome.
| # | Company | Location | Employees | Total Funding | Last Round | Last Funded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Warner Bros Discovery
Warner Bros Discovery is a global media and entertainment company that creates a…
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New York | c 10001 max | $17.5B | Post Ipo Debt | 2025-06-09 |
| 2 |
Substack
Substack is a subscription-based newsletter publishing platform for independent …
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San Francisco | 101 - 250 | $200.2M | Series C | 2025-07-17 |
| 3 |
Excel Entertainment
Excel Entertainment is a film and media production company focusing on culturall…
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Mumbai | 51 - 100 | $80.0M | Corporate Round | 2026-01-03 |
| 4 |
Paramount Skydance Corporation
Paramount Skydance is a media company that creates elevated, event-level enterta…
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Santa Monica | 501 - 1K | $1.7B | Debt Financing | 2023-07-11 |
| 5 |
Semafor
Semafor is a news and media company that offers widely covered news content acro…
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New York | 11 - 50 | $74.0M | Series Unknown | 2026-01-07 |
| 6 |
Reddit
Reddit is an online platform that enables users to submit links, create content,…
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San Francisco | 1K - 5K | $1.3B | Series F | 2021-08-12 |
| 7 |
Plural
Plural is a company that provides public policy tools to help teams save time an…
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Washington | 11 - 50 | $10.0M | Series Unknown | 2023-01-01 |
| 8 |
NPR
NPR is a multimedia news organization and radio program producer that delivers n…
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Washington | 1K - 5K | $57.7M | Grant | 2025-11-17 |
| 9 |
YourStory
YourStory.com is a media platform that covers the startup ecosystem in India.
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Bangalore | 101 - 250 | $8.5M | Series B | 2017-10-02 |
| 10 |
Citizen
Citizen is a mobile application that notifies its users with safety alerts and r…
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New York | 51 - 100 | $133.0M | Series C | 2021-01-05 |
| 11 |
Roundtable
Roundtable is an operator of a news publishing website that delivers truthful in…
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San Juan | 11 - 50 | $34.7M | Undisclosed | 2025-09-30 |
| 12 |
Scribd, Inc.
Scribd is an unlimited reading subscription that offers access to books, audiobo…
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San Francisco | 251 - 500 | $106.8M | Series E | 2019-11-25 |
| 13 |
TuneIn
TuneIn offers a global audio streaming platform that brings together live radio …
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San Francisco | 251 - 500 | $146.6M | Series Unknown | 2020-11-23 |
| 14 |
WHSmith
WHSmith is a retailer that operates a chain of High Street, railway station, air…
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Swindon | 5K - 10K | $506.8M | Post Ipo Debt | 2023-06-14 |
| 15 |
Built In
Built In is a global network of online communities for tech companies and startu…
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Chicago | 101 - 250 | $29.9M | Series C | 2019-07-16 |
| 16 |
BBC
BBC is a large-scale broadcasting corporation that offers content to inform, edu…
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London | c 10001 max | $5.7M | Grant | 2019-02-06 |
| 17 |
Medium
Medium is a social publishing network that connects ideas and perspectives on to…
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San Francisco | 51 - 100 | $163.0M | Series Unknown | 2021-11-18 |
| 18 |
The Pinkfong Company
The Pinkfong Company is a global entertainment company that delivers high-qualit…
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Seoul | 251 - 500 | $38.4M | Series B | 2021-12-01 |
| 19 |
Benzinga
Benzinga is a financial news and analysis service providing timely, actionable i…
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Detroit | 101 - 250 | $4.5M | Series Unknown | 2016-09-29 |
| 20 |
TelevisaUnivision
TelevisaUnivision is a Mexican-American media company which owns the American Sp…
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Miami | 1K - 5K | $1.7B | Debt Financing | 2024-01-18 |
| 21 |
Forbes
Forbes Magazine is a business magazine that is focused on business news and fina…
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Jersey City | 251 - 500 | $200.0M | Corporate Round | 2022-02-10 |
| 22 |
Mediacom Communications
Mediacom Communications Corporation operates as a cable television company in th…
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Middletown | 1K - 5K | $18.9M | Grant | 2024-05-23 |
| 23 |
The Associated Press
The Associated Press is a source of independent newsgathering, supplying a stead…
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New York | 1K - 5K | $750K | Grant | 2024-04-03 |
| 24 |
Eutelsat
Eutelsat is a commercial satellite provider with coverage spanning the European …
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Paris | 1K - 5K | $5.3B | Post Ipo Debt | 2026-03-06 |
| 25 |
OneFootball
OneFootball is an app and platform that provides comprehensive coverage of inter…
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Berlin | 251 - 500 | $442.0M | Corporate Round | 2024-10-01 |
| 26 |
The New York Times
The New York Times creates, collects, and distributes news, information, and ent…
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New York | 5K - 10K | $951.9M | Post Ipo Equity | 2026-02-20 |
| 27 |
NXP Semiconductors
NXP Semiconductors produces secure connectivity solutions for embedded applicati…
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Eindhoven | c 10001 max | $2.6B | Post Ipo Debt | 2025-08-12 |
| 28 |
Juno Industries
Juno Industries Build advanced defence technology to protect.
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Vancouver | 11 - 50 | $3.0M | Seed | 2026-01-15 |
| 29 |
Minute Media
Minute Media is a global technology and content company specializing in sports a…
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London | 501 - 1K | $260.0M | Debt Financing | 2024-01-24 |
| 30 |
LiveU
LiveU produces technology for television broadcasters to enable live video links…
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Kfar Saba | 251 - 500 | $250.0M | Private Equity | 2019-05-19 |
| 31 |
PlayOn! Sports (formerly 2080 Media)
PlayOn! Sports is a school media and technology company that provides streaming …
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Atlanta | 251 - 500 | $72.3M | Private Equity | 2022-02-01 |
| 32 |
The Free Press
The Free Press is a media company dedicated to reporting on science, politics, a…
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Los Angeles | 11 - 50 | $15.0M | Series Unknown | 2025-09-25 |
| 33 |
The Block
The Block is the first and final word in digital assets.
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New York | 101 - 250 | $3.5M | Seed | 2019-04-30 |
| 34 |
Air Astana Airlines
Air Astana Airlines is a provider of news and information about the airline's fl…
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Astana | 1K - 5K | $144.2M | Post Ipo Secondary | 2025-12-17 |
| 35 |
Haystack News
Haystack News is an Ad-supported streaming news platform that offers relevant ne…
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Redwood City | 11 - 50 | $4.5M | Series Unknown | 2018-09-04 |
| 36 |
Sirius XM
Sirius XM is a satellite radio broadcasting company providing satellite radio an…
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New York | 5K - 10K | $4.2B | Post Ipo Debt | 2026-02-26 |
| 37 |
Chptr
Chptr is a mobile-first memorialization platform to gather, share, and hold memo…
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New York | 11 - 50 | $7.1M | Series A | 2026-03-04 |
| 38 |
Odyssey
Odyssey is an internet company that specializes in social media, publisher, and …
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New City | 501 - 1K | $31.5M | Debt Financing | 2019-05-08 |
| 39 |
Newsmax Media
Newsmax Media is a multimedia and broadcasting company that offers independent n…
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West Palm Beach | 501 - 1K | $1.4B | Post Ipo Equity | 2025-04-07 |
| 40 |
Dorian
Dorian is a no-code platform that allows writers to turn fiction into interactiv…
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San Francisco | 11 - 50 | $19.2M | Series A | 2022-03-17 |
| 41 |
SmartNews
SmartNews is a news app that helps users find quality news beyond the filter bub…
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Tokyo | 501 - 1K | $410.3M | Series F | 2021-09-15 |
| 42 |
Stringr
Stringr is a remote video gathering and GenAI video production platform for broa…
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New York | 11 - 50 | $15.4M | Convertible Note | 2024-03-14 |
| 43 |
Star Tribune
Star Tribune is a news publishing company that publishes local, sports, and busi…
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Minneapolis | 501 - 1K | $350K | Grant | 2023-02-27 |
| 44 |
Ad Fontes Media
Ad Fontes Media is a public benefit corporation that rates the news.
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Lafayette | 11 - 50 | $5.8M | Series A | 2023-07-12 |
| 45 |
Euronews
Euronews is an online news portal that cover world news from a european perspect…
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Lyon | 501 - 1K | $30.0M | Corporate Round | 2017-05-31 |
| 46 |
Quebec Tech
Quebec Tech aims to accelerate the growth of tech firms and boost the number of …
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Metcalfe | 11 - 50 | $14.9M | Grant | 2024-12-30 |
| 47 |
theSkimm
theSkimm is a digital media company, dedicated to succinctly giving women the in…
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New York | 51 - 100 | $28.4M | Series C | 2019-09-20 |
| 48 |
China Unicom
China Unicom is a company that provides broadband communications and information…
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Beijing | c 10001 max | $11.7B | Post Ipo Equity | 2017-08-17 |
| 49 |
HackerNoon
HackerNoon publishes technology stories and builds publishing software.
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Edwards | 1 - 10 | $3.9M | Seed | 2023-05-15 |
| 50 |
Inshorts
Inshorts is an aggregator app that summarizes news articles in 60 words and cove…
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Noida | 501 - 1K | $165.0M | Series Unknown | 2021-07-15 |