Top Journalism Startups in 2026

We produce original content across YouTube, Snapchat and IGTV, as well as highly engaging shortform content on Instagram and TikTok. In just four years, we’ve amassed over 50 million fans and followers and drive an average of over 1.5 billion video views each month. Based in NYC, Overtime is funded by top VC firms, industry leaders, and athletes, including Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, Sapphire Sport, Bezos Expeditions (the personal investment company of Jeff Bezos), Micromanagement Ventures (the family of the late David Stern), Black Capital, Morgan Stanley Counterpoint Global, Blackstone Strategic Partners, PROOF, Gaingels, Alexis Ohanian, Drake, and 30+ NBA stars including Carmelo Anthony and Kevin Durant.

Noa's audio-journalism offering is revolutionising the way people consume news and information. * Premium content from the likes of The New York Times, The Economist and The Financial Times, is produced over audio by professional voice narrators, ensuring engaging and high quality storytelling. * Expertly curated playlists - called "Series" - provide multiple perspectives from multiple publishers, on the same topic and allow our listeners to walk away truly informed, having heard all sides of the story. No more filter bubbles, no more broken mirrors, and a far better way to tackle fake news. * Accessible across all audio-supported devices including mobile, smart speakers, web and connected cars providing listeners with maximum convenience. * A re-imagined user experience allows users to discover and track, with ease, the news that is most important to them. Noa's current publisher line-up: • The New York Times • The Financial Times • The Economist • The Washington Post • MIT Technology Review • Foreign Affairs • The Irish Times • Evening Standard • The Independent • Business Insider • Bloomberg Noa is available across all audio-supported platforms, including: • iOS: appsto.re/ie/cS0Pdb.i • Android: goo.gl/oqWj8p • Alexa: amzn.to/2Gb6ACe • Web: newsoveraudio.com

At a time of growing industry uncertainty and an alarming erosion of civic discourse, The Dispatch stands out as a platform for thoughtful coverage, respectful dialogue and a wildly engaged community of paying members. We bring a perspective – we’re conservatives, classical liberals, libertarians – but we’re fiercely independent, standing apart from media outlets increasingly engaged in partisan boosterism. Started by Steve Hayes, the Editor-in-Chief of The Weekly Standard, and Jonah Goldberg, editor at The National Review in 2019, The Dispatch has filled a valuable gap on the center-right in the media ecosystem as captured in recent articles in Techcrunch, The Atlantic and other publications. techcrunch.com/2020/03/17/the-dispatch-substack-1-million-revenue theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/01/dispatch-tries-sell-real-news-right/… niemanlab.org/2020/03/the-dispatch-surpassed-1-million-in-revenue-by-being-ne…

In an increasingly digital world, MemoryWell is solving a growing list of healthcare’s most challenging engagement problems with an unexpected solution: Empathetic, human interaction. Our solutions make the person the center of healthcare. MemoryWell delivers dramatic increases in satisfaction and retention. And our rich, person-centered dialogs yield the most accurate SDOH and HRA data available. MemoryWell grew out of the experience our founder, Jay Newton-Small, had caregiving for her father, who had Alzheimer's. When she moved him into a senior community, she was asked to fill out a long questionnaire about his life. This made no sense: who would remember pages of hand-written data points for 100+ residents in that community? Instead, as a longtime TIME Magazine correspondent, she wrote his story for his caregivers and pasted it on the walls throughout the community. It transformed his care. Two of his caregivers were Ethiopian and they'd had no idea Jay’s father, Graham, had lived in Ethiopia for years early on in his career with the United Nations. They became his champions, sitting for hours asking him about what it was like to work with Emperor Haile Selassie. Seeing the impact her story had on her father’s experience was enough to influence Jay to transition from her role at TIME to launch MemoryWell. In addition to the life stories product, MemoryWell has leveraged insights and journalistic engagement to reduce churn in Medicare Advantage. Medicare Advantage churn averages 10% and is as high as 40% during the first 90 days. Enrollees have grown numb to automated texts and robocalls, resulting in expensive data gaps. MemoryWell provides human-to-human engagement that resolves these problems with skillful conversation, relationship building, and education.

150Bond provides high-level strategic advice to c-level executives helping them to amplify their message and grow their network. We work with high growth companies, top tier VCs and Fortune 500's

MyLocalPress.com is seeking to collaborate with independent journalists with a background in business, journalism and communications who possess entrepreneurial drive and are committed to advancing local journalism in cities and towns where newspapers have closed or where local news coverage is insufficient. As a startup technology company, MyLocalPress.com is dedicated to revitalizing local journalism in communities lacking robust news outlets. Over the past two decades, approximately 50% of local newspapers have ceased operations due to business model challenges. MyLocalPress.com addresses these issues by utilizing technology, the internet, and artificial intelligence to equip independent journalists with the resources necessary to launch and manage local newspapers, produce content, publish articles, and sell advertising—from the field using a smartphone or from a desktop computer. Independent journalists can register and access the MyLocalPress.com platform at no cost, enabling them to publish local news and generate advertising revenue, with unlimited income potential determined by individual ambition. For additional information or to get started, visit mylocalpress.com and sign up to begin building your local news enterprise today.

When was the last time you heard directly from someone living through war? Someone who just crossed a border looking for a new life? Someone getting by with almost nothing — in their own words, not a headline? People have stories to tell in their own voices. justwitter is a voice-first social platform built around a simple idea: Voices, not posts. We are exploring a different kind of internet — one where people share thoughts, stories, and experiences in their own voice rather than through polished posts, algorithms, or performance. A social network built around listening, conversation, and the belief that every person has a story worth hearing.

A global platform that empowers sustainability: news, articles, startups, and a sustainability index. OUR STORY We were founded in Rome in 2014. From there, we established our presence online via our sustainability news portal: impakter.com PARTNERS We are partners of many UN organisations, NGOs, think tanks, research centers and Universities. PROFILES: Linkedin: linkedin.com/company/impakter Twitter: twitter.com/Impakterdotcom Facebook: facebook.com/impakterdotcom Instagram: instagram.com/impakter

KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation) is a nonprofit organization focusing on national health issues, as well as the U.S. role in global health policy. KFF develops and runs its own policy analysis, journalism and communications programs, sometimes in partnership with major news organizations. KFF serves as a nonpartisan source of facts, analysis and journalism for policymakers, the media, the health policy community and the public. Our product is information, always provided free of charge — from the most sophisticated policy research, to basic facts and numbers, to in-depth health policy news coverage provided by our news service, KHN, to information young people can use to improve their health or the general public can use to understand health insurance. The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation was established in 1948, but it was completely remade in 1991, under the leadership of CEO Drew Altman. We have not changed our name, but nowadays refer to ourselves simply as KFF — our legal name can cause occasional confusion because we are neither a foundation, a family foundation, nor are we associated with Kaiser Permanente. We keep the name to honor the legacy of our original benefactor, the great industrialist Henry J. Kaiser, whose motto “find a need and fill it,” we have adapted into our motto: “Filling the need for trusted information on national health issues.” KFF is not associated with Kaiser Permanente.

Dance.com became the largest editorial dance website in the United States (measured by SimilarWeb) just 10 weeks after its soft launch of January 16, 2017. We are seeking to raise capital to help grow it into a pop culture website with 20mm+/m users. While Dance.com is a fast-growing start-up, it is also wholly owned by a subsidiary LLC of the 130-year old company Capezio, the world’s premier provider of dancewear. Dance.com is the first digital media company to celebrate the entire spectrum of dance: from the fantastic dance routines of pop icons like Beyonce, to televised dance competitions with audiences in the tens of millions, to our entertaining take on traditional dance. We position ourselves as an upBeat editorial website. Upbeat content can be 40% more effective for advertisers. Our message of celebration, joy, fun, fitness, self-expression is a perfect environment for marketers. And in the future, we will introduce e-commerce offerings for the dancers in our audience.