Ellie Horvath
At Best Startup London we track over 100,000 London based startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 62 Journalism companies in London. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Journalism Companies & Startups (London)
Sifted
| Founders | Caspar Woolley, John Thornhill |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Sifted is a media site for Europe’s innovators and entrepreneurs.
Proactive
| Founders | Craig Ribton, Ian McLelland |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Proactive is an international news and media organization providing coverage of companies in the small to mid-capitalization range.
Compass News
| Founders | Matilde Giglio, Mayank Banerjee |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Compass News is a subscription-based journalism platform powered by an AI editor that makes you smarter, quicker.
Byline
| Founders | Daniel Tudor, Seung Yoon Lee |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Byline is a London-based crowdfunded journalism startup.
Blottr
| Founders | Adam Baker |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Blottr is a people-powered news service enabling anyone to capture, report and collaborate on news as it happens around them.
Contactable
| Founders | Ali Tehrani, Parham Saidi |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Contactable is a news analytics company, classifying the interests of journalists.
The Ozone Project
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
The Ozone Project is a transparent and brand-safe platform offering advertisers direct access to an audience for programmatic advertising.
Hindawi
| Founders | Ahmed Hindawi, Nagwa Abdel-Mottaleb |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Hindawi is a commercial publisher of peer-reviewed and fully OpenAccess research journals and papers.
hiyalife
| Founders | David Gomez, Fernando Ripolles |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Hiyalife is an app that allows users to organize their memories, build their life stories, and rediscover and share them.
MailOnline
| Founders | Alfred Harmsworth, Harold Harmsworth |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
MailOnline is an English-language newspaper website that offers information about world news, entertainment, celebrity news, and more.
BBC Worldwide
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
BBC Worldwide Limited is the main commercial arm and a wholly owned subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
Blasting News
| Founders | Andrea Manfredi, Linda Iulianella, Massimiliano Aliverti |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Blasting News is the leading social news publisher. Where every voice counts.
Tortoise Media
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Tortoise Media builds a different type of newsroom, news without all the noise.
LiveTube
| Founders | Jan Herold, Sven Herold |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
The world’s first Curated Live Video Platform.
Richtopia
| Founders | Derin Cag |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
A universal information movement to build a world where all eight billion people are rich.
Planet Ivy
| Founders | Lewis Flude, Vincent Dignan |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Planet Ivy is a magazine and information provider focused on helping start ups.
23 Snaps
| Founders | Ivailo Jordanov, Yury Tereshchenko |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
23 Snaps, a mobile and web app, allows users to create and share memory books containing videos and photos of their families and friends.
paydesk
| Founders | Henry Peirse, Morgan Sowden |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
On-demand workforce platform disrupting the recruitment industry one sector at a time. Starting with media and doing it with payments
Martin Dunitz Limited
| Founders | Unknown |
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Martin Dunitz Limited is a London-based publisher of medical books and journals.
Parlia
| Founders | J. Paul Neeley, Turi Munthe |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
The Encyclopedia of Opinion
Healthinnovations
| Founders | Michelle Petersen |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Healthinnovations is a trusted source of current and future innovations for the health industry for over a decade.
Newspepper
| Founders | Hermione Way |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Newspepper is a global media platform that provides paid internships to students and graduates.
Demotix
| Founders | Jonathan Tepper, Turi Munthe |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Demotix is a photo agency that allows its users to share their user-generated content.
First Draft News
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
First Draft News offers a collection of articles and case studies offering best practice advice and guidance for handling eyewitness media.
European Medical Journal
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
European Medical Journal is an independent, open-access e-journal dedicated to delivering first-class insights.
Vizibee
| Founders | Artem Kiselev, David Tomchak, Neha Manaktala |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Vizibee offers a mobile application that enables journalists to publish and share news through videos.
PPA
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
The PPA has been synonymous with magazines for over 100 years but made up of modern media businesses carving out a new future.
The Future Shaping Media Company Limited
| Founders | Richard Copland |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
SaaS, Payment, Rights tech, Blockchain, Publishing, Journalism, Digital Content
Pitch Me
| Founders | Kabir Chibber |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Pitch Me is an online community that connects journalists to indie publishers.
The Hedge Fund Journal
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
The Hedge Fund journal publishes the profiles of hedge fund managers.
Sunday
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Sunday is a content marketing and publishing agency that produces solutions via all owned media channels and for B2C and B2B audiences.
Chinadialogue
| Founders | Isabel Hilton |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Where China and the world discuss the environment.
The Corporate Law Journal
| Founders | Elinor Nikolova, Saffron-Lucia Gilbert-Kaluba |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
The Corporate Law Journal is disrupting the news industry in over 100 countries to provide concise, innovative and easily accessible commercial awareness in fields that have long been marred with red tape.
Now a Reuters partner, The Corporate Law Journal is an international news organisation that specifically looks at the political, technological, financial and environmental regulatory shifts in the changing world of business – with exclusives from leading professionals. Saffron-Lucia Gilbert-Kaluba is CEO and co-founder whilst Elinor Nikolova is also a co-founder.
The Beautiful Truth
| Founders | Adam Penny |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
The Beautiful Truth is a magazine that honors people and businesses who live their lives with purpose.
Pressglue
| Founders | John Haynes, Jonathan Farber |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Pressglue offers news management tools and mobile news casting applications to report, share, and monetize news stories.
Airfinance Journal
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Airfinance Journal is a financial publication of the global aircraft and aviation business.
TU-Automotive
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
TU-Automotive is the reference point and communications hub for the evolving automotive technology segment.
Castle Journal
| Founders | Abeer Almadawy |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Castle Journal British Company for global unified journalism production of specialised international newspapers & magazines
Bonafide Magazine
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Bonafide Magazine is a music and lifestyle magazine based in London.
The Tablet
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
The Tablet is a weekly international Catholic multimedia publication.
Scholaries
| Founders | Friedrich Jergitsch, Tymon Kiepe |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Scholaries is a place to share summaries of academic books and articles. It is free, helpful, and easy to use.
Private Eye Magazine
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Private Eye Magazine is a news and current affairs magazine that offers subscriptions and podcasts as well for its editorial.
Sonr News
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Sonr alerts journalists and organisations to relevant stories and breaking news across both social and media feeds using firehose APIs
PitchSpace
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Public Relations Platform
YPN
| Founders | Jeff Houston-McMillan, Ryan Houston-McMillan |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Instant, On ground, personal insight opinions and reports on news worldwide. News before the news Citizen led news Social media Journalism.
The Pathfounder
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
The Pathfounder is an events and editorial startup focused on examining the intersection of emerging tech, business, and culture.
Descrier
| Founders | Tim Dickinson |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Independent news and culture magazine
Contributoria
| Founders | Dan Catt, Matt McAlister, Sarah Hartley |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Contributoria is an independent journalism community.
Startups of London
| Founders | Ozan Dagdeviren |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Telling the stories of London based startups through video documentaries.
Media Standards Trust
| Founders | Unknown |
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The Media Standards Trust is an independent registered charity .
CelePost
| Founders | Jeremy Garrett |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
CelePost, a British online magazine, enables users to vote, review, and interact with digital content about celebrities, fashion and style.
Media Panther Network
| Founders | Unknown |
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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
PostDesk
| Founders | Gabriella Makrai, James White, Sam England |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
PostDesk is a platform for discussion and debate.
The Publishers House
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
The Publishers House provides a platform free from intrusive and dubious ad supported business models for publishers and consumers.
Speakoutfreedom
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Speakoutfreedom is an online news outlet focused on local central Illinois businesses to share opinions and improve brand quality.
Positive News
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Positive News is a magazine for good journalism about what’s going right, published daily online and quarterly in print.
tabs.to
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
tabs.to is a U.K.-based self-funded startup that helps people tell stories with shared URLs.
The Guardian
| Founders | Unknown |
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The Guardian specializes in News and journalism.
Market4NEWS
| Founders | Unknown |
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Market4NEWS is a mobile journalism news agency.
iWriteReadRate.com
| Founders | Adam Oskwarek |
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iWriteReadRate.com the social place to discover, share & discuss stories.
EachOther
| Founders | Unknown |
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EveryOther is a charity that uses independent journalism, storytelling, and filmmaking to promote human rights.
The DailyDust
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
The Daily Dust is an online newspaper, bringing you the best of British news to you as quickly as possible.
