101 Best United States Journalism Startups – Innovating Journalistic Techniques

May 3, 2022
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This article showcases our top picks for the best United States 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 United States Journalism Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

BuzzFeed

BuzzFeed

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BuzzFeed is a cross-platform digital media company delivering news and entertainment content to a global audience.

Vox Media

Vox Media

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Vox Media is an operator of an online media publishing agency created to influence editorial properties and premium advertising.

Vox Media

Odyssey

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Odyssey is an internet company that specializes in social media, publisher, and platform used to democratize content.

Vox Media

Penske Media Corporation

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PMC is a Leading Digital Media and Publishing Company

Vox Media

New York University

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New York University is a private research university that provides education in the arts and sciences, law, medicine, business, and others.

Vox Media

BLACKBIRD.AI

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Early Warning Artificial Intelligence Platform surfacing manipulative disinformation campaigns, misinformation and propaganda.

Vox Media

NewsGuard

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NewsGuard provides online users with ratings and write-ups for news and information websites used and shared by consumers.

Vox Media

A360 Media

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A360 Media is the publisher of celebrity journalism and health and fitness magazines in the U.S.

Vox Media

NewsBreak

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News Break is the Nation’s #1 Intelligent Local News Platform

Vox Media

The Athletic

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The Athletic is an online media company that specializes in online news publishing for the sports industry.

Vox Media

Uproxx Media Group

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Uproxx Media Group is a millennial focused digital media company, producing and distributing news/pop-culture content to nearly 50M users.

Vox Media

Qwoted

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Qwoted is an expert platform designed to help reporters write better stories faster.

Vox Media

Knowhere

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Information technology company using machine learning to deliver factual, community-first, and critical news information at scale.

Vox Media

The Blaze

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The Blaze is a news, information, and opinion website by a team of writers, journalists, and video producers.

Vox Media

Tribune Publishing

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Tribune Publishing Company, is a diversified media and marketing-solutions company.

Vox Media

Press Hook

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Press Hook is the first tech enabled public relations platform that matches brands with media to facilitate newsworthy stories.

Vox Media

Telegram

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Telegram delivers award-winning reporting and photojournalism, breaking news, and updates around the clock.

Vox Media

Cozi

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Cozi is an American startup company providing mobile and internet-based applications to help families stay organized.

Vox Media

Industry Dive

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Business journalism serving 11 million decision-makers across 20 competitive industries.

Vox Media

Sports News Corp

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Sports website and mobile app

Vox Media

Watchup

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Watchup offers an iPad app that enables users to build their own newsreel from trusted news and information channels.

Vox Media

Spoon University

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Spoon University is the everyday food resource that make food make sense.

Vox Media

ProPublica

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ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

Vox Media

WhereBy.Us

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A platform that enables creators to build a media business for their community.

Vox Media

The Markup

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The Markup investigates how powerful actors use technology to reshape society.

Vox Media

OpenAxis

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Easily visualize, share, and collaborate with data to tell stories

Vox Media

Knight Foundation

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Knight Foundation supports transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, and engaged communities.

Vox Media

Civil

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Civil is a decentralized marketplace for sustainable journalism.

Vox Media

Philly

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Philly produces print and digital newspapers, and magazines that offer news on sports, entertainment, business, lifestyle and health.

Vox Media

StringersHub

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Marketplace, through which stringers and eyewitnesses will be able to upload their video and sell it, media – buy content and make orders.

Vox Media

edra Publishing

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edra Publishing is a publishing company specializing in the knowledge of medicine and pharmaceuticals.

Vox Media

Babbler

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Babbler is a PR social network that connects companies with the right reporters and influencers.

Vox Media

Reyets: Social Justice Network

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Reyets empowers safer community / police interactions through mobile enabled education, resource sharing, reporting and data analysis.

Vox Media

Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism

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The CUNY Graduate is innovative journalism school in the heart of NYC

Vox Media

TrendSeeder

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TrendSeeder provides customers with exclusive access to hand picked fashion items from up and coming designers.

Vox Media

MuckRock

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MuckRock is an online open news portal that allows individuals to embed, share, and write about verified government documents.

Vox Media

Muck Rack

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Muck Rack is the new standard in public relations software. Easily search for journalists, monitor news, and build reports.

Vox Media

New York Post

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The New York Post is an American daily newspaper, primarily distributed in New York City and its surrounding area.

Vox Media

Tempesta Media

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Performance-based content marketing solution that drives revenue for your business

Vox Media

Resolve Philly

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Resolve Philly challenges the field of journalism to be equitable, collaborative, and informed by community voices and solutions.

Vox Media

NewsMatch

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NewsMatch elevated nonprofit news through GivingNewsDay which saw journalists, celebrities.

Vox Media

ESPN

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ESPN is a multinational and multimedia sports entertainment company that features a wide collection of multimedia sports assets.

Vox Media

JRNL

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JRNL is a private journaling application designed for both web and mobile use

Vox Media

Lenfest Institute

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Lenfest Institute is the first-of-its-kind non-profit organization

Vox Media

Scout Holdings

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Scout Holdings is a journalism community that delivers weekly online dispatches on the future of technology.

Vox Media

Sqoop

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Sqoop is a news discovery network that helps journalists access news and news makers.

Vox Media

Shmoop

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Shmoop is a digital curriculum and test prep publisher offering online learning and test prep and teaching materials on the web and mobile.

Vox Media

The Correspondent

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The Correspondent is an online platform for unbreaking news, committed to collaborative, constructive, and ad-free journalism.

Vox Media

SUMAQ Media Inc.

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SUMAQ is a platform that promotes Peruvian culture in the United States.

Vox Media

UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media

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UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media is an educational platform.

Vox Media

OpenNews

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OpenNews helps a global network of developers, journalists, makers, and hackers collaborate on innovative codes and new ideas.

Vox Media

Promega

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Promega products are used by life scientists who are asking fundamental questions about biological processes/

Vox Media

Ad Fontes Media

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Ad Fontes Media is a Public Benefit Corporation that rates the news. It was founded by Vanessa Otero, creator of the Media Bias Chart®.

Vox Media

John Wiley & Sons

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John Wiley & Sons is a provider of content and content-enabled workflow solutions.

Vox Media

Stephens Group

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The Stephens Group is a private, family-owned firm that invests its capital in private and public companies with exceptional management

Vox Media

Helium Network

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Helium is an online writing community enabling writers to submit articles, capture publisher writing assignments bounties, and get paid.

Vox Media

EzineArticles

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EzineArticles.com is an online content publishing platform with article submission and analytics tools.

Vox Media

The E.W. Scripps Company

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Serves audiences and businesses through a growing portfolio of television, radio and digital media brands.

Vox Media

New York Times Co

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The New York Times is a news and media agency that seek the truth and help people understand the world.

Vox Media

Gray TV

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Gray TV is a broadcast company that owns and operates television stations in 31 markets across the country.

Vox Media

Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication

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The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication provides bachelor’s and master’s degree courses.

Vox Media

Heavy Inc.

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Heavy is today’s platform for the most sought-after news and information.

Vox Media

SiliconANGLE Media

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SiliconANGLE Media is a media company that provides news, commentary, and analysis on the technology industry.

Vox Media

Inform Inc

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Inform integrate world class technology to improve digital advertising, content syndication, and publishing operations for our partners.

Vox Media

The Mag Shack

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The Mag Shack updating our inventory with the latest firearm mags at the most affordable prices online.

Vox Media

Newsday

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Newsday remains Long Island’s newspaper of choice for unsurpassed coverage of international, national and most importantly, local news.

Vox Media

Transport Topics

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Transport Topics is an online platform that publishes news and information about freight transportation.

Vox Media

World Journal

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World Journal is a newspapers company that offers local, national, and international news.

Vox Media

qbeats inc

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qbeats is a technology platform that connects content creators with consumers through dynamic pricing.

Vox Media

HubPages

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HubPages is an open community of passionate individuals asking questions, finding answers, and sharing words, pictures and videos.

Vox Media

Science Magazine

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Science Magazine is an online magazine and offline publication that provides news and information related to science and medicine.

Vox Media

Perfect Market

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Perfect Market provides digital-publishing software solutions for increasing traffic, engagement and revenue on websites.

Vox Media

The Business Journals

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The Business Journals offers a website that provides local business news and information in Los Angeles, California.

Vox Media

Shortboxed

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Shortboxed is an application to discover, buy, and sell collectible comic books.

Vox Media

dearJulius.com

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dearJulius.com organizes the best information to make it easier for you to focus on yourself, stay cognizant, and be relevant.

Vox Media

Big Life Journal

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Big Life Journal is a global leader in the development of children’s growth mindsets and character education.

Vox Media

NewsCracker

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NewsCracker provides a natural language processing platform to automatically detect fake news online.

Vox Media

Inside Higher Ed

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Inside Higher Ed is the online source for news, opinion, and jobs related to higher education.

Vox Media

American City Business Journals

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American City Business Journals Inc.(ACBJ) is the largest publisher of metropolitan business newspapers in the USA.

Vox Media

/Film

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Film is a blog that features news, information, and insights related to the Film industry.

Vox Media

148Apps

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148apps is an online platform that offers news, recommendations, and reviews on iPhone OS applications.

Vox Media

Statesman

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The Statesman is an online daily English language newspaper that features several categories.

Vox Media

Outdoor News

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Outdoor News is providing day to day outdoor news about hunting & fishing.

Vox Media

Help A Reporter Out

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Help A Reporter Out is a social media company that provides publicity services in North America.

Vox Media

Marktechpost

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Marktechpost is a California-based Artificial Intelligence Media Startup

Vox Media

Superb Crew

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SuperbCrew is a business news website covering innovative companies.

Vox Media

NJ.com

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NJ.com is New Jersey’s largest news website affiliated with 12 New Jersey newspapers.

Vox Media

Pressfarm

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Pressfarm is a web-based platform that helps entrepreneurs find journalists to write about their startups.

Vox Media

Voice Media Group

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Voice Media Group publishes metropolitan newsweeklies and websites in major markets across the United States.

Vox Media

Miami Blockchain & NFT Summit

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Grit Daily News Summit on NFTs and blockchain.

Vox Media

Redivis

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Redivis democratizes access to data and the tools to understand them, allowing anyone to tell compelling data-driven stories.

Vox Media

Eva Media, Inc.

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Eva Media Inc. is an American digital media company.

Vox Media

BostInno

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BostInno is a Boston-based online news portal that delivers news related to business, technology, education, and sports.

Vox Media

Pactio

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Pactio is a journalism platform to promote and support local journalism.

Vox Media

Repustar

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Repustar provides media, journalism, fact-checking, social media distribution, and research services.

Vox Media

Food Tank

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Food Tank provides sustainable solutions for the most pressing environmental and social problems.

Vox Media

KOREA DAILY

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KOREA DAILY is a Korean newspaper publication company that offers local news and business information.

Vox Media

The Farm Journal Corporation

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The Farm Journal Foundation is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to sustaining agriculture.

Vox Media

Star Tribune Media

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Star Tribune Media is communication media which provide the services of news and information.

Vox Media

Box Office India

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BOI is India’s film trade website.

Vox Media

The Western Journal

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The Western Journal is a news company that drives positive cultural change by equipping readers with truth.

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