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Biggest subscription news websites 2026: Exclusive ranking

Biggest subscription news websites 2026: Exclusive ranking

Published by Sam Flores

Digital subscriptions pages or homepages for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Zealand Herald, Mail+ and Apple News+, all screenshotted on 5 March 2026 New entrants on Press Gazette’s 100k Club ranking of the biggest subscription news websites in the world include in 2026 include The Irish Times Group, Goalhanger and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Press Gazette’s 100k Club ranks English-language publishers with at least 100,000 paying digital subscribers. Fifty-nine news and magazine publishers from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India appear on the list. Scroll down or click here for the full ranking. This compares with just 24 titles making the grade as members of the 100k Club when Press Gazette launched this ranking in 2020. The New York Times (12.21 million digital subscribers, up 13% year on year – but some are only non-news products) makes up 23% of the subscriptions on the entire list of 59 publishers. Substack now has more than five million paying subscribers to publications on its platform (from whom it …

How The Atlantic won ‘tortoise and hare’ race versus digital news start-ups

How The Atlantic won ‘tortoise and hare’ race versus digital news start-ups

Published by Sam Flores

Editor-in-chief of The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg appears on stage at the Sir Harry Evans Investigative Journalism Summit in London in 2025 where he is being interviewed by the event’s convener Tina Brown. Picture: Reuters/Chris J Ratcliffe The Atlantic is now in a “virtue cycle” of making a product people will pay for and putting the profit back into the business, according to editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg. Goldberg said the news magazine title has benefited from the “mismanagement” of The Washington Post by hiring “very talented” journalists. The Atlantic added 50 journalists to its newsroom in 2025 and now has an editorial team of more than 200 people. National security, politics, accountability, science and health, and tech have all been areas of expansion. “I want to build the greatest collective of non-fiction writers in the English speaking world. I think I’m getting there,” Goldberg said. The business model of The Atlantic, as he put it, is to “make the highest quality stories and convince the readers of those stories to pay you to read them”. Goldberg was …

Who’s suing AI and who’s signing: Danish publishers take OpenAI to court

Who’s suing AI and who’s signing: Danish publishers take OpenAI to court

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A lawsuit has been launched against OpenAI in Denmark on behalf of news publishers whose work was believed to have been used to train ChatGPT. The Chicago Tribune and New York Times sued Perplexity at the end of 2025, while multiple publishers have signed AI licensing deals with Meta. Meanwhile Getty Images failed to secure an AI copyright precedent in the UK after suing Stability AI. And The Hollywood Reporter and Variety publisher Penske Media has become the first news publisher to sue Google over the impact of its AI Overviews in search results on traffic and revenue. A small number of news publishers have followed in the footsteps of The New York Times to sue OpenAI and other AI companies over the unauthorised use of their content – now including nine more US regionals owned by Alden Global Capital subsidiary Media News Group, as well as US News & World Report. However many more now have signed deals with the AI companies which commonly include the use of their content as reference points for …

News subscriptions prices and offers tracked in 2026

News subscriptions prices and offers tracked in 2026

Published by Sam Flores

Subscriptions pages for the Financial Times, The Telegraph, The Scotsman and Bloomberg Media on 23 January 2026 Digital news subscriptions prices have increased by an average of 3% in the UK for the second year running, according to Press Gazette analysis. However many publications were offering discounts in January of up to 89%, indicating that many consumers may be able to avoid paying the full price. Of 23 publications included in Press Gazette’s dataset both in January 2025 and January 2026, ten increased their annual digital subscription prices in the past year. Six saw no change in annual price and seven reduced the cost of their digital subscription. As a result the average percentage change among these 23 digital news subscriptions was 3%, close to the UK inflation rate of 3.6% (2.7% in the US) over the past 12 months. This contrasts to UK national newspaper cover prices, which were up by an average of 10% in the past year as publishers look to make up for falling newsstand sales and advertising. From January 2024 …

Five US publishers sue Google over ‘manipulative’ adtech practices

Five US publishers sue Google over ‘manipulative’ adtech practices

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Google Ad Manager. Picture: Shutterstock/IB Photography Five major US publishers have filed lawsuits against Google claiming its “deceptive and manipulative” adtech practices seriously limited their potential revenue. Rolling Stone owner Penske Media Corporation (plus its subsidiary She Media), Conde Nast owner Advance Publications, The Verge owner Vox Media, local newspaper giant McClatchy, and The Atlantic have all filed cases against Google in the past week. The actions come after the US Justice Department successfully sued Google for violating antitrust law by monopolising digital advertising markets, harming “Google’s publishing customers” as well as consumers. A ruling on what Google can be made to do to restore competition is expected this year. The publisher lawsuits allege that Google used its dominance over ad servers and ad exchanges to force publishers into its ecosystem, stifle competition and drive down online prices. They say Google could see rivals’ bids through its ad exchange before submitting its own, allowing it to keep prices deliberately low. A Google spokesperson said in response to the complaints: “These allegations are meritless. Advertisers and …

Senior news leaders reflect on 2025 and what’s ahead in 2026

Senior news leaders reflect on 2025 and what’s ahead in 2026

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L-R top to bottom: Newsweek chief revenue officer Danielle Varvaro, Politico chief executive Goli Sheikholeslami, Forbes CEO Sherry Phillips, Reach director of growth David Bartlett, Bloomberg Media CEO Karen Saltser, Associated Press chief revenue officer Kristin Heitmann, Independent Media CEO Christian Broughton, Sun editor-in-chief Victoria Newton, and Mail Metro Media chief revenue officer Dominic Williams. News leaders from some of the biggest media companies in the UK and US have reflected on 2025 and revealed how they are feeling ahead of 2026. Press Gazette asked respondents to share how they are feeling via emojis and explain their choice. Despite a challenging year just gone, the news publishing bosses chose to stay upbeat for their answers and spoke about what they can control in 2026. As a result, perhaps surprisingly, AI barely got a mention. Scroll down or click through to see the full responses from each of our participants: Anna Bross, The Atlantic, SVP communications Christian Broughton, The Independent, chief executive Christina Hawley, Immediate, chief commercial officer Danielle Varvaro, Newsweek, chief revenue officer David Bartlett, …

The projects publishers are most proud of in 2025

The projects publishers are most proud of in 2025

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L-R top to bottom: New York Times TVP of global advertising Tom Armstrong, Newsweek editor-in-chief Jennifer Cunningham, The Atlantic chief executive Nicholas Thompson, Forbes chief innovation officer Nina Gould, Telegraph deputy editor Catherine Bentley-Gouldstone, Politico senior executive editor for North America Alex Burns, Bloomberg head of media editorial David Merritt, Metro deputy editor Claie Wilson, and Sun director of video Jon Lloyd. 2025 has been tough for many media companies but there has still been plenty of innovation and investment in new projects going on. Press Gazette thought these bright spots were worth celebrating. We asked publishers in the UK and US to shout about one project, either editorial or commercial, that worked well for them this year. The responses were broad, demonstrating the diversity of approaches being taken to thrive in 2025 – although there were a few recurring themes. Scroll down or click through to see the full responses from each of our participants: Associated Press – AP Intelligence Bloomberg – Bloomberg Weekend Business Insider – ’80 over 80′ series Daily Mail – …