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2,216 online outlets and 16,885 journalists (September 2026)

16,885 journalists are on file at 2,216 online outlets: 9,285 editors and 5,000 reporters, 1.86 editors for every reporter.

Source: JournalistLabs, September 2026

Updated 2026-09-15

2,216 Outlets
16,885 Journalists on file
1.86 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 online outlets

OutletCountryJournalistsReportersEditors
Bloomberg United States 1,785 839 761
ETV Bharat India 688 238 418
Fairfax Media Australia 521 262 199
Forbes United States 406 124 188
News Corp Australia Australia 397 203 154
ABS-CBN News Philippines 393 121 215
Her Campus Media United States 293 4 160
Business Insider United States 286 109 131
The Minnesota Star Tribune United States 258 117 100
CNN-News18 United States 206 60 109
Axios United States 189 116 62
People Inc. United States 183 0 139
TEGNA United States 166 62 44
Kumparan Indonesia 151 93 50
The Atlantic United States 145 4 93
Webedia Brazil 138 13 105
VML United States 126 4 118
Cosmopolitan United States 115 15 83
The Tab United Kingdom 109 22 76
Moneycontrol India 106 6 75

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, 16,885 journalists at 2,216 online outlets, September 2026, https://journalistlabs.com/outlets/type/online/.

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