64 Best London Based Journalism Startups and Companies to Work For

June 20, 2021

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

Top London Journalism Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

Proactive

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

Compass News

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Compass News is a subscription-based journalism platform powered by an AI editor that makes you smarter, quicker.

Compass News

Byline

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Byline is a London-based crowdfunded journalism startup.

Compass News

Sifted

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Sifted is a media site for Europe’s innovators and entrepreneurs.

Compass News

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.

Compass News

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).

Compass News

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.

Compass News

Contactable

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Contactable is a news analytics company, classifying the interests of journalists.

Compass News

MailOnline

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MailOnline is an English-language newspaper website that offers information about world news, entertainment, celebrity news, and more.

Compass News

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.

Compass News

Hindawi

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Hindawi is a commercial publisher of peer-reviewed and fully OpenAccess research journals and papers.

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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

Compass News

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

Compass News

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Compass News is a subscription-based journalism platform powered by an AI editor that makes you smarter, quicker.

Compass News

Byline

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Byline is a London-based crowdfunded journalism startup.

Compass News

Sifted

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Sifted is a media site for Europe’s innovators and entrepreneurs.

Compass News

Blottr

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Blottr is a people-powered news service enabling anyone to capture, report and collaborate on news as it happens around them.

Compass News

BBC Worldwide

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

BBC Worldwide Limited is the main commercial arm and a wholly owned subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

Compass News

PPA

Crunchbase Website 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.

Compass News

Contactable

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Contactable is a news analytics company, classifying the interests of journalists.

Compass News

MailOnline

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MailOnline is an English-language newspaper website that offers information about world news, entertainment, celebrity news, and more.

Compass News

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.

Compass News

Hindawi

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Hindawi is a commercial publisher of peer-reviewed and fully OpenAccess research journals and papers.

Compass News

Pressglue

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Pressglue offers news management tools and mobile news casting applications to report, share, and monetize news stories.

Compass News

Healthinnovations

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Healthinnovations is a trusted source of current and future innovations for the health industry for over a decade.

Compass News

Planet Ivy

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Planet Ivy is a magazine and information provider focused on helping start ups.

Compass News

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.

Compass News

Demotix

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Demotix is a photo agency that allows its users to share their user-generated content.

Compass News

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.

Compass News

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.

Compass News

The Future Shaping Media Company Limited

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SaaS, Payment, Rights tech, Blockchain, Publishing, Journalism, Digital Content

Compass News

Martin Dunitz Limited

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Martin Dunitz Limited is a London-based publisher of medical books and journals.

Compass News

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

Compass News

Newspepper

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Newspepper is a global media platform that provides paid internships to students and graduates.

Compass News

Richtopia

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A universal information movement to build a world where all eight billion people are rich.

Compass News

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.

Compass News

Parlia

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The Encyclopedia of Opinion

Compass News

Chinadialogue

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Where China and the world discuss the environment.

Compass News

Pitch Me

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Pitch Me is an online community that connects journalists to indie publishers.

Compass News

TU-Automotive

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TU-Automotive is the reference point and communications hub for the evolving automotive technology segment.

Compass News

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.

Compass News

Descrier

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Independent news and culture magazine

Compass News

Startups of London

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Telling the stories of London based startups through video documentaries.

Compass News

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.

Compass News

Bonafide Magazine

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Bonafide Magazine is a music and lifestyle magazine based in London.

Compass News

PitchSpace

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Public Relations Platform

Compass News

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

Compass News

The Guardian

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The Guardian specializes in News and journalism.

Compass News

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

Compass News

Market4NEWS

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Market4NEWS is a mobile journalism news agency.

Compass News

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.

Compass News

Contributoria

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Contributoria is an independent journalism community.

Compass News

Vizibee

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Vizibee offers a mobile application that enables journalists to publish and share news through videos.

Compass News

Media Standards Trust

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The Media Standards Trust is an independent registered charity .

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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.

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iWriteReadRate.com

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iWriteReadRate.com the social place to discover, share & discuss stories.

Compass News

tabs.to

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tabs.to is a U.K.-based self-funded startup that helps people tell stories with shared URLs.

Compass News

Speakoutfreedom

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Speakoutfreedom is an online news outlet focused on local central Illinois businesses to share opinions and improve brand quality.

Compass News

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.

Compass News

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.

Compass News

Speakoutfreedom

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Speakoutfreedom is an online news outlet focused on local central Illinois businesses to share opinions and improve brand quality.

Compass News

Speakoutfreedom

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Speakoutfreedom is an online news outlet focused on local central Illinois businesses to share opinions and improve brand quality.

Compass News

CelePost

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

CelePost, a British online magazine, enables users to vote, review, and interact with digital content about celebrities, fashion and style.

Compass News

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

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