British News Media

Wikipedia country profile: United Kingdom
Freedom House 2026 country freedom score: 92/100 | status: free Free

Reporters Without Borders 2026 press freedom score: 79.45 (ranked 18th of 180)

United Kingdom, Channel Islands, and Isle of Man news sites

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Abingdon Herald	Article, The
Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser	Ayrshire Post
Argus, The (Brighton)
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Ballymena Guardian	Birmingham Post & Mail
Banbury Guardian	Blairgowrie Advertiser
Barnsley Chronicle	Bolton News, The
Bath Chronicle	Border Counties Advertizer
BBC News	Bristol Post
BBC World Service Radio	Bromsgrove Advertiser
Bedford Today	Bucks Free Press (High Wycombe)
Belfast Live	Bucks Herald, The (Aylesbury)
Belfast Telegraph	Burnley Express
Berwickshire News	Bury Free Press
Bexhill & Battle Observer	Bury Times
Bicester Advertiser
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Cambridgeshire Live	Church of England Newspaper, The
Carmarthen Journal	Cornwall Live
Channel 4 News	Courier, The (Dundee)
Cheshire Live	Coventry Telegraph
Chester & District Standard, The	Craven Herald & Pioneer
Chichester Observer	Cumberland & Westmorland Herald
Chronicle & Journal, The (Newcastle)	Cumberland News, The
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Daily Express	Derby Telegraph
Daily Gazette (Colchester)	Derbyshire Times (Chesterfield)
Daily Mail	Devon Live
Daily Mirror	Dewsbury Reporter
Daily Record (Glasgow)	Didcot Herald
Daily Star	Doncaster Free Press
Daily Telegraph	Dudley News
Darlington & Stockton Times	Dumfries & Galloway Standard
Daventry Express	Dunoon Observer & Argyllshire Standard
Denbighshire Free Press
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East Anglian Daily Times (Ipswich)	Essex Live
Eastbourne & Hailsham Herald	Evening Chronicle (Newcastle)
Eastern Daily Press (Norwich)	Evening Echo (Basildon)
East Kilbride News	Evesham Journal
Economist, The	Express & Echo (Exeter)
Edinburgh Evening News	Express & Star (Wolverhampton)
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Falkirk Herald, The	Financial Times
Fermanagh Herald (Enniskillen)	Flintshire Leader & Standard
Fife Free Press (Kirkcaldy)
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Galloway News	Gloucestershire Live
Gazette, The (Blackpool)	Grimsby Telegraph (Grimsby Live)
Gazette, The (Hemel Hempstead)	Guardian, The
Gazette, The (Teesside)	Guardian Weekly, The
Glasgow Times	Guernsey Press
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Hamilton Advertiser	Hertfordshire Mercury
Hampshire Chronicle	Hinckley Times
Hampstead & Highgate Express	Hucknall & Bullwell Dispatch
Hartlepool Mail	Huddersfield Daily Examiner
Helensburgh Advertiser	HuffPost UK
Herald, The (Glasgow)	Hull Daily Mail
Hereford Times


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Ilkley Gazette	Irvine Herald
Impartial Reporter, The (Enniskillen)	Isle of Man Today (Douglas)
Independent	Isle of Wight County Press (Newport)
Ipswich Star	ITV News
Irish News, The (Belfast)	IWPR - Institute for War and Peace Reporting
IRN - Independent Radio News
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Jane's Defence Weekly	Jersey Evening Post
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Keighley News	Kidderminster Shuttle
Kenilworth Weekly News	Kilmarnock Standard
Kent Live	Knutsford Guardian
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Lancashire Evening Post	Lincolnshire World
Lancashire Telegraph	Liverpool Echo
Lancaster Guardian (Morecambe)	London, This is Local
Larne Times	London Journal
Leader, The (Mold)	Londonderry Sentinel
Leamington Spa Courier	Louth Leader
Ledbury Reporter	Ludlow & Tenbury Wells Advertiser
Leicester Mercury (Leicestershire Live)	Lurgan Mail
Leigh Journal	Lynn News (King's Lynn)
Lincolnshire Live
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Maidenhead Advertiser	Market Rasen Mail
Mail on Sunday, The	Messenger Newspapers (Greater Manchester)
Malvern Gazette	Metro
Manchester Evening News	Milton Keynes Citizen
Mansfield Chad (Chronicle & Advertiser)	Morning Star
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Nature Magazine	North-West Evening Mail (Barrow-in-Furness)
New Scientist Magazine	Northamptonshire Telegraph
Newark Advertiser	Northern Echo, The (Darlington)
Newham Recorder	Northern Ireland World
News, The (Portsmouth)	Northern Scot, The (Moray)
News & Star (Carlisle)	Northumberland Gazette
North Devon Journal	Northwich & Winsford Guardian
North Wales Chronicle	Nottingham Post
North Wales Pioneer
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Observer, The	Oxford Mail
Outlook (County Down)
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Paisley Daily Express	Portadown Times
Perthshire Advertiser	Powys County Times
Peterborough Telegraph	Press, The (York)
Plymouth Live	Press & Journal, The (Aberdeen)
Politics.co.uk


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Reading Chronicle, The	Rugby Advertiser
Redditch & Alcester Advertiser	Runcorn & Widnes World
Reuters	Rutherglen Reformer (Lanarkshire)
Rhyl, Prestatyn & Abergele Journal
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Scarborough News, The	Standard, The
Scottish Field Magazine	Star, The (Sheffield)
Scottish Sun, The	Stirling Observer
Scotsman, The	Stornoway Gazette
Sentinel, The (Stoke-on-Trent Live)	Stourbridge News
Shetland Times, The (Lerwick)	Strabane Weekly News
Shields Gazette, The (South Shields)	Stratford-upon-Avon Herald
Shropshire Star (Telford)	Sun, The
Shuttle, The (Kidderminster)	Sunday Mail (Glasgow)
Skegness Standard	Sunday Mirror
Sky News	Sunday Post, The (Dundee)
Slough & South Bucks Observer	Sunday Times, The
Somerset Live	Sunderland Echo
Southern Daily Echo (Southampton)	Surrey Live
Southern Reporter, The (Selkirk)	Sussex Express (Sussex World)
St Albans & Harpenden Review	Swindon Advertiser
St Helens Star
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Tablet, The (Catholic News Weekly)	Times, The
Telegraph & Argus (Bradford)	Times & Star (Carlisle)
This is Local London (Newsquest Media)	Tyrone Courier
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Ulster Gazette & Armagh Standard	Ulster Star (Lisburn)
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No entries under 'V' at this time.
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Wakefield Express	West Somerset Free Press
Wales Online	West Sussex County Times (Horsham)
Wallingford Herald	Wharfedale Observer
Wantage & Grove Herald	Whitehaven News, The
Warrington Guardian	Wigan Observer & Wigan Post (Wigan Today)
Warwick Courier	Wiltshire Times (Trowbridge)
Warwickshire World	Wirral Globe (Birkenhead)
Watford Observer	Wishaw Press (Lanarkshire)
We Are Tyrone	Witney Gazette
Western Morning News (Plymouth)	Worksop Guardian
West Lothian Courier	Worcester News
Westmorland Gazette, The (Kendal)	Worthing Herald
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No entries under 'X' at this time.
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York Press, The	Yorkshire Post, The
Yorkshire Evening Post
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No entries under 'Z' at this time.

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