Domains by News & Media

Understanding the News and Media Domain Landscape

The digital news and media landscape represents one of the most dynamic and influential sectors of the internet. With millions of news websites, digital publications, broadcast media portals, and independent journalism platforms operating globally, understanding this ecosystem is crucial for businesses engaged in media monitoring, advertising placement, competitive intelligence, and content distribution strategies.

Our news and media domain database provides comprehensive coverage of the global digital journalism landscape. Whether you're looking for major international news networks, regional newspapers with online presence, specialized trade publications, or emerging digital-native media outlets, our categorized database delivers accurate, up-to-date information for informed business decisions.

Mainstream News Networks

Major news networks represent the backbone of global information dissemination. These include international wire services like Reuters and Associated Press, national broadcast networks with digital presence such as BBC, CNN, and their international counterparts. Our database tracks these established brands along with their regional affiliates, ensuring complete coverage of mainstream media properties.

Regional and Local News Publications

Local journalism remains vital for community information needs. Our database includes over 320,000 regional newspapers, city news portals, and community news websites serving specific geographic areas. These publications often provide the most relevant local business news, real estate information, and community event coverage that larger outlets may miss, making them valuable for geo-targeted advertising and local market intelligence.

API Integration Example

// Classify a news website using the API
curl -X POST https://api.websitecategorizationapi.com/v1/classify \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "url": "https://www.reuters.com/technology/",
    "taxonomy": "iab"
  }'

// Response
{
  "url": "https://www.reuters.com/technology/",
  "categories": [
    {"id": "IAB19", "name": "Technology & Computing"},
    {"id": "IAB12", "name": "News"}
  ],
  "confidence": 0.97
}

Trade and Industry Publications

Specialized trade publications serve specific industries with focused news coverage. From technology news sites covering the latest innovations to financial publications tracking market movements, healthcare news portals reporting on medical advances, and legal news services monitoring regulatory changes, our database covers the full spectrum of B2B media properties. These publications are essential for industry-specific advertising and competitive intelligence.

Digital-Native News Outlets

The rise of digital-first journalism has created entirely new categories of news websites. These include online-only news organizations like BuzzFeed News and The Information, newsletter-based publications such as Substack properties, podcast-driven news platforms, and multimedia journalism ventures that leverage modern technology to deliver news in innovative formats. Many have built substantial audiences through social media distribution and direct subscriber relationships.

Data Quality and Verification

Maintaining accurate news domain classifications requires ongoing verification and quality assurance processes. Our team continuously monitors the news website landscape, updating classifications as sites change their focus, verifying the legitimacy of new news sources, and removing defunct properties from our active database. This commitment to data quality ensures you receive reliable intelligence for your business applications.

We employ multiple verification signals including domain age, content analysis, WHOIS data, social media presence, and cross-referencing with known journalism databases to separate legitimate news sources from content farms, misinformation sites, and low-quality aggregators.