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3,062 newspapers and 44,234 journalists (September 2026)

44,234 journalists are on file at 3,062 newspapers: 20,081 editors and 16,485 reporters, 1.22 editors for every reporter.

Source: JournalistLabs, September 2026

Updated 2026-09-15

3,062 Outlets
44,234 Journalists on file
1.22 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 newspapers

OutletCountryJournalistsReportersEditors
The New York Times United States 2,168 632 1,144
The Wall Street Journal (Dow Jones) United States 1,535 676 726
The Guardian United Kingdom 718 204 354
Financial Times United Kingdom 595 128 313
The Times United Kingdom 504 140 258
Los Angeles Times United States 470 178 172
The Telegraph United Kingdom 457 125 236
The Indian Express India 446 90 255
USA Today United States 413 174 175
New York Post United States 373 148 189
The Globe and Mail Canada 347 118 153
South China Morning Post China 328 139 143
Politico United States 299 161 113
Newsday Media Group United States 276 113 118
The Sun United Kingdom 275 130 120
Denver Business Journal United States 255 128 113
The Independent United Kingdom 243 80 124
Nikkei Japan 234 68 61
The Philadelphia Inquirer United States 232 77 102
The Epoch Times United States 225 144 60

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, 44,234 journalists at 3,062 newspapers, September 2026, https://journalistlabs.com/outlets/type/newspapers/.

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