50 Best News Companies to Watch in 2026

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.

12,914
Total Companies
$96.2B
Total Funding
$7.4M
Avg Funding
New York
Top Location
# 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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Washington 1K - 5K $57.7M Grant 2025-11-17
9
YourStory
YourStory.com is a media platform that covers the startup ecosystem in India.
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Seoul 251 - 500 $38.4M Series B 2021-12-01
19
Benzinga
Benzinga is a financial news and analysis service providing timely, actionable i…
Detroit 101 - 250 $4.5M Series Unknown 2016-09-29
20
TelevisaUnivision
TelevisaUnivision is a Mexican-American media company which owns the American Sp…
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…
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…
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…
New York 1K - 5K $750K Grant 2024-04-03
24
Eutelsat
Eutelsat is a commercial satellite provider with coverage spanning the European …
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…
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…
New York 5K - 10K $951.9M Post Ipo Equity 2026-02-20
27
NXP Semiconductors
NXP Semiconductors produces secure connectivity solutions for embedded applicati…
Eindhoven c 10001 max $2.6B Post Ipo Debt 2025-08-12
28
Juno Industries
Juno Industries Build advanced defence technology to protect.
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…
London 501 - 1K $260.0M Debt Financing 2024-01-24
30
LiveU
LiveU produces technology for television broadcasters to enable live video links…
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 …
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Minneapolis 501 - 1K $350K Grant 2023-02-27
44
Ad Fontes Media
Ad Fontes Media is a public benefit corporation that rates the news.
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…
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 …
Metcalfe 11 - 50 $14.9M Grant 2024-12-30
47
theSkimm
theSkimm is a digital media company, dedicated to succinctly giving women the in…
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…
Beijing c 10001 max $11.7B Post Ipo Equity 2017-08-17
49
HackerNoon
HackerNoon publishes technology stories and builds publishing software.
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…
Noida 501 - 1K $165.0M Series Unknown 2021-07-15