This article showcases our top picks for the best London based Journalism companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Journalism industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top London Journalism Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Proactive
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Proactive is an international news and media organization providing coverage of companies in the small to mid-capitalization range.
Compass News
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Compass News is a subscription-based journalism platform powered by an AI editor that makes you smarter, quicker.
Byline
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Byline is a London-based crowdfunded journalism startup.
Sifted
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Sifted is a media site for Europe’s innovators and entrepreneurs.
Blottr
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Blottr is a people-powered news service enabling anyone to capture, report and collaborate on news as it happens around them.
BBC Worldwide
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BBC Worldwide Limited is the main commercial arm and a wholly owned subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
PPA
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The PPA has been synonymous with magazines for over 100 years but made up of modern media businesses carving out a new future.
Contactable
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Contactable is a news analytics company, classifying the interests of journalists.
MailOnline
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MailOnline is an English-language newspaper website that offers information about world news, entertainment, celebrity news, and more.
hiyalife
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Hiyalife is an app that allows users to organize their memories, build their life stories, and rediscover and share them.
Hindawi
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Hindawi is a commercial publisher of peer-reviewed and fully OpenAccess research journals and papers.
paydesk
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On-demand workforce platform disrupting the recruitment industry one sector at a time. Starting with media and doing it with payments
Proactive
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Proactive is an international news and media organization providing coverage of companies in the small to mid-capitalization range.
Compass News
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Compass News is a subscription-based journalism platform powered by an AI editor that makes you smarter, quicker.
Byline
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Byline is a London-based crowdfunded journalism startup.
Sifted
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Sifted is a media site for Europe’s innovators and entrepreneurs.
Blottr
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Blottr is a people-powered news service enabling anyone to capture, report and collaborate on news as it happens around them.
BBC Worldwide
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BBC Worldwide Limited is the main commercial arm and a wholly owned subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
PPA
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The PPA has been synonymous with magazines for over 100 years but made up of modern media businesses carving out a new future.
Contactable
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Contactable is a news analytics company, classifying the interests of journalists.
MailOnline
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MailOnline is an English-language newspaper website that offers information about world news, entertainment, celebrity news, and more.
hiyalife
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Hiyalife is an app that allows users to organize their memories, build their life stories, and rediscover and share them.
Hindawi
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Hindawi is a commercial publisher of peer-reviewed and fully OpenAccess research journals and papers.
Pressglue
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Pressglue offers news management tools and mobile news casting applications to report, share, and monetize news stories.
Healthinnovations
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Healthinnovations is a trusted source of current and future innovations for the health industry for over a decade.
Planet Ivy
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Planet Ivy is a magazine and information provider focused on helping start ups.
23 Snaps
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23 Snaps, a mobile and web app, allows users to create and share memory books containing videos and photos of their families and friends.
Demotix
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Demotix is a photo agency that allows its users to share their user-generated content.
Sunday
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Sunday is a content marketing and publishing agency that produces solutions via all owned media channels and for B2C and B2B audiences.
The Ozone Project
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The Ozone Project is a transparent and brand-safe platform offering advertisers direct access to an audience for programmatic advertising.
The Future Shaping Media Company Limited
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SaaS, Payment, Rights tech, Blockchain, Publishing, Journalism, Digital Content
Martin Dunitz Limited
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Martin Dunitz Limited is a London-based publisher of medical books and journals.
paydesk
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On-demand workforce platform disrupting the recruitment industry one sector at a time. Starting with media and doing it with payments
Newspepper
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Newspepper is a global media platform that provides paid internships to students and graduates.
Richtopia
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A universal information movement to build a world where all eight billion people are rich.
First Draft News
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First Draft News offers a collection of articles and case studies offering best practice advice and guidance for handling eyewitness media.
Chinadialogue
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Where China and the world discuss the environment.
Pitch Me
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Pitch Me is an online community that connects journalists to indie publishers.
TU-Automotive
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TU-Automotive is the reference point and communications hub for the evolving automotive technology segment.
The Pathfounder
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The Pathfounder is an events and editorial startup focused on examining the intersection of emerging tech, business, and culture.
Startups of London
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Telling the stories of London based startups through video documentaries.
CelePost
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CelePost, a British online magazine, enables users to vote, review, and interact with digital content about celebrities, fashion and style.
Bonafide Magazine
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Bonafide Magazine is a music and lifestyle magazine based in London.
Media Panther Network
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Media Panther Network runs two motorcycle and motor-sport specific websites, one aimed at the general motorcycle population and the other
The Guardian
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The Guardian specializes in News and journalism.
Sonr News
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Sonr alerts journalists and organisations to relevant stories and breaking news across both social and media feeds using firehose APIs
Market4NEWS
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Market4NEWS is a mobile journalism news agency.
YPN
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Instant, On ground, personal insight opinions and reports on news worldwide. News before the news Citizen led news Social media Journalism.
Contributoria
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Contributoria is an independent journalism community.
Vizibee
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Vizibee offers a mobile application that enables journalists to publish and share news through videos.
Media Standards Trust
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The Media Standards Trust is an independent registered charity .
Scholaries
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Scholaries is a place to share summaries of academic books and articles. It is free, helpful, and easy to use.
iWriteReadRate.com
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iWriteReadRate.com the social place to discover, share & discuss stories.
tabs.to
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tabs.to is a U.K.-based self-funded startup that helps people tell stories with shared URLs.
Speakoutfreedom
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Speakoutfreedom is an online news outlet focused on local central Illinois businesses to share opinions and improve brand quality.
The DailyDust
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The Daily Dust is an online newspaper, bringing you the best of British news to you as quickly as possible.
The Publishers House
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The Publishers House provides a platform free from intrusive and dubious ad supported business models for publishers and consumers.
Speakoutfreedom
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Speakoutfreedom is an online news outlet focused on local central Illinois businesses to share opinions and improve brand quality.
Speakoutfreedom
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Speakoutfreedom is an online news outlet focused on local central Illinois businesses to share opinions and improve brand quality.
CelePost
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CelePost, a British online magazine, enables users to vote, review, and interact with digital content about celebrities, fashion and style.
Media Panther Network
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Media Panther Network runs two motorcycle and motor-sport specific websites, one aimed at the general motorcycle population and the other