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3,115 broadcasters and 52,664 journalists (September 2026)

52,664 journalists are on file at 3,115 broadcasters: 18,424 editors and 20,595 reporters, 0.89 editors for every reporter.

Source: JournalistLabs, September 2026

Updated 2026-09-15

3,115 Outlets
52,664 Journalists on file
0.89 Editors per reporter

Every outlet type

Outlet typeOutletsJournalistsEditorsReportersEditors per reporter
Newspapers 3,062 44,234 20,081 16,485 1.22
Broadcasters 3,115 52,664 18,424 20,595 0.89
Online outlets 2,216 16,885 9,285 5,000 1.86
Wire agencies 59 5,448 1,665 2,545 0.65
Magazines 183 4,222 2,700 595 4.54

Source: JournalistLabs, September 2026.

The 20 largest broadcasters

OutletCountryJournalistsReportersEditors
BBC United Kingdom 3,935 1,957 1,038
ABC News (Australia) Australia 1,194 641 246
SABC South Africa 1,043 359 280
CNN United States 1,030 263 495
ESPN United States 957 226 600
Zee Media India 939 304 410
Sveriges Radio Sweden 764 711 17
Deutsche Welle Germany 732 379 198
NDTV India 670 194 362
ABC News United States 669 235 279
DR - Danmarks Radio Denmark 659 578 58
ITV United Kingdom 586 180 230
CBS News United States 577 158 259
NBC News United States 571 203 233
Sinclair Broadcast Group United States 537 144 168
Fox News Media United States 526 187 210
SVT Sweden 486 409 63
RTE Ireland 405 152 115
Sky News United Kingdom 375 104 179
CNBC United States 372 143 136

Outlet type comes from the Wikidata instance-of labels on the outlet's own domains, and from the vendor industry label where Wikidata has no entry. The rule is on method. Source: JournalistLabs, September 2026.

Cite this

JournalistLabs, 52,664 journalists at 3,115 broadcasters, September 2026, https://journalistlabs.com/outlets/type/broadcasters/.

Base: 127,602 journalists on file. Method: https://journalistlabs.com/method/.