List of fictional newspapers

This is a list of fictional newspapers from forms of media such as films, television, and books.

From the DC Universe

Batman

• Gotham Free Press - Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
• Gotham Gazette - Batman comics, Vicki Vale's employer, also seen in Gotham (TV series)
• Gotham Globe - Batman comics, Batman: The Movie, Batman (1989 film), Vicki Vale's employer
• Gotham Herald - Batman Beyond, The New Adventures of Batman
• Moscow Bugle - Batman, in Batman (1966 film) Catwoman, posing as Soviet journalist Kitayna Ireyna Tatanya Kerenska Alisoff (aka "Kitka"), claims to work for this publication. It is never clarified as to whether or not the publication actually exists, or simply another part of Catwoman's ruse.

Superman

• Action Bulletin News - tabloid in Superman comics (with a logo similar to Action Comics)
• The Bulletin - Superman Universe, shown in Showdown
• The Central City Citizen - The Flash
• Central City Picture News - The Flash comics, Iris West's employer
• The Daily Planet from Metropolis - Superman
• The Daily Star - newspaper from the earliest Superman comics; sometimes also appears in modern comics as a competing paper to the Daily Planet or a newspaper in superhero Green Arrow's Star City
• Daily Tattler - Superman
• Eagle - Superman
• Evening Compass - Superman
• Exsquisitor - Smallville
• Metropolis Herald Superman
• Metropolis Star - Superman
• Morning Globe - Superman
• Morning Pictorial - Superman
• Morning Star - Superman Universe, shown in Showdown
• The National Voyeur - Superman: Doomsday
• The Smallville Ledger - Smallville
• The Torch - Smallville
• World and the Globe - Superman

Other

• The Jump City Times - Teen Titans Go!
• Jump Times - Teen Titans Go!
• The Manhattan Guardian - Seven Soldiers:Manhattan Guardian
• Picture News - The FLash
• CatCo Worldwide Media - Supergirl (TV series)

From the Discworld series

• The Ankh-Morpork Inquirer
• The Ankh-Morpork Times
• The Pseudopolis Herald
• The Sto Plains Dealer
• The Tanty Bugle

From Harry Potter series

• The Daily Prophet (main wizarding newspaper)
• Transfiguration Today
• The Practical Potioneer
• Achievements in Charming
• Which Broomstick?
• The Quibbler (a wizarding tabloid)
• Witch Weekly (gossip)
• Wonky Wizard

From Metalocalypse

• COMLIFE
• The New York Chronicle
• USA Mouth
• Your Liberal Lip

From other works

• Aeoman Journal - MADtv
• AFOL Times - Lego Atlantis: The Movie
• America Today - The Simpsons
• The Amity Gazette - Jaws
• Antarctica Daily - Internet
• The Arkham Advertiser and The Arkham Gazette - H. P. Lovecraft's Arkham
• The Arlen Bystander - King of the Hill
• The Banner - One Life to Live
• The Banner Times - Modern Family
• The Bay Mirror - Charmed
• Beach Times - Surf II: The End of the Trilogy
• The Beast - Scoop (novel by Evelyn Waugh)
• Beijing Daily Worker - The Simpsons
• Bikini Bottom News - SpongeBob SquarePants
• Bloom Beacon - Milo Bloom's paper in Bloom County
• Bloom Picayune - Milo Bloom's paper in Bloom County
• The Borchester Echo - The Archers
• The Boston Telegraph - The Dead Zone
• The Bottomfeeder - Spongebob Squarepants
• The Brentford Mercury - Robert Rankin novels
• The Bridgeport Observer - Dream House
• The Caledonian - Complicity
• Camp Swampy Bugle - Beetle Bailey
• Canley Evening News - Sun Hill's local newspaper in The Bill
• The Cardiff Gazette - Doctor Who episode "Boom Town"
• Casterbridge Chronicle - The Mayor of Casterbridge
• Chicago Herald-Star in the V. I. Warshawski detective novels, where Murray Ryerson works
• The Chimney Sweep Times Picayune - The Daily Show
• China Weekly - from China, IL
• The Chippewa Bugle - The Simpsons
• Cleveland Bee - The Soup
• The City - Pushing Daisies
• The Collinsport Star - Dark Shadows
• The Comet - The Naked Truth
• Courier Sun - Leave It to Beaver
• Da NewsPapes - Homestar Runner
• Dacron, Ohio Republican–Democrat - National Lampoon
• The Daily (Newspaper of the Year) - Penelope
• The Daily Blade - depicted in comics published by a number of companies
• The Daily Blizzard - Orion Poe and the Lost Explorer by Will Summerhouse
• The Daily Bollocks - The Daily Show
• The Daily Brute - newspaper in Scoop (novel by Evelyn Waugh)
• The Daily Bugle - Marvel Comics, especially Spider-Man
• The Daily Chronicle - The Brady Bunch
• The Daily Chronicle - The Great Muppet Caper
• The Daily Chronicle - The Monkees TV series
• The Daily Comet- a British tabloid owned by Derek Leech in Kim Newman's fiction
• The Daily Crate Liner - Get Fuzzy
• The Daily Danville - Phineas and Ferb
• The Daily Days - Baccano!
• The Daily Fluxion - Cat Who... series by Lillian Jackson Braun
• The Daily Fourth Gradian - Springfield Elementary School newspaper, The Simpsons
• The Daily Galaxy - The Greatest American Hero
• The Daily Glob - Monstropolis, Monsters, Inc., tabloid
• The Daily Globe - Rival paper to the Daily Bugle in the Marvel Universe
• The Daily Glove - In Living Color
• The Daily Granite - The Flintstones, was for a time Captain Caveman, Betty Rubble and Wilma Flintstone's employer; edited by Lou Granite
• The Daily Mole - Thursday Next novels
• The Daily Punctilio - A Series of Unfortunate Events
• Daily Register - a San Francisco paper shown on the television series Journeyman
• Daily Sentinel - The Green Hornet
• The Daily Set-Up - The Simpsons
• The Daily Slab - The Flintstones
• The Daily Splash - The Cleveland Show
• The Daily Sun - Paperboy (video game)
• Daily Supernova - Futurama
• The Daily Trumpeter - Lio
• Daily Yell - London paper, employer of Salcombe Hardy, the friend of Lord Peter Wimsey
• Daily Yell - unconnected with the above; London paper, employer of Kevin O'Connell, the friend of Amelia Peabody
• DayFax - Spider Jerusalem's old employer in Transmetropolitan
• The Day - Pushing Daisies
• The Dog River Howler - Dog River's official newspaper in Corner Gas
• The Evening Prophet - The evening edition of the Daily Prophet in Harry Potter
• Evergreen Standard - The Raccoons
• Events - a Boston newspaper in The Rise of Silas Lapham
• Fairwater Gazette - The Frighteners
• The Financial Preview - The New Statesman
• The Flash - Brenda Starr
• The Framley Examiner
• The Gammy Bird - The Shipping News novel and film
• Glasgow Tribune - Apocalypse Cow (novel by Michael Logan)
• The Gravity Falls Gossiper -Gravity Falls
• Hazzard County Gazette - The Dukes of Hazzard
• Hill Valley Telegraph - Back to the Future
• The Homer Times - The Simpsons
• Hooterville World Guardian- Petticoat Junction
• Hope Falls Journal - PSP video game Dead Head Fred
• The Inquisitor - Silent Hill Bill Skins Fifth reference (video game)
• The Inquisitor - Zork Grand Inquisitor
• James Woods Bugle - Family Guy
• La Paris - Santa Claus: The Movie
• La Vie Francaise - Bel Ami
• Langley Falls Post - appears in the opening credits of each American Dad! episode
• The Latest News - Homestar Runner
• Lawndale Sun-Herald - Daria
• The Lenny-Saver - The Simpsons
• Liberty Tree - Liberty City newspaper in the Grand Theft Auto series of video games
• The Local Newspapes - Homestar Runner
• The London A**wipe - The Daily Show
• The Lone Gunmen - The X-Files
• The Los Angeles Banner - Tower of Terror
• The Los Angeles Suit - Death Wish 2
• The Los Angeles Sun - My Favorite Martian television series, where Tim works
• The Los Angeles Tribune - Lou Grant
• Malibu Tribune - Battle Against the Villains
• Marin Bugler - Too Close for Comfort
• Mars Today - Total Recall
• The Maycomb Tribune - To Kill a Mockingbird
• The Miami Record-Dispatch - Dave's World
• Middleton Times - Kim Possible
• The Mind Reader - Inside Out
• The Morning Star - Nothing Sacred (1937 film)
• The National Register - a tabloid newspaper mentioned on both The Amazing Spider-Man and The Incredible Hulk TV series of the 1970s
• The New Frontiersman - Watchmen
• The New Holland Post - Frankenweenie
• The New New York Post - Futurama
• The New York Banner - The Fountainhead
• New York Bulletin - Marvel Cinematic Universe
• New York Chronicle - Citizen Kane, Woman of the Year, Bewitched, The Critic, and The Patty Duke Show
• New York Daily Inquirer - Citizen Kane
• New York Examiner - Ugly Betty
• New York Globe -- Sweet Smell of Success
• New York Herald - Oscar Madison's employer in The Odd Couple (named after a defunct real-life paper which was one of the ancestors of the New York Herald Tribune')
• New York Herald Examiner - High Society
• New York Ledger - Law & Order
• New York Sentinel - Law & Order
• New York Sentinel (unconnected with the above) - The Adventures of Hiram Holliday
• New York Sentinel (unconnected with the above) - Beauty and the Beast
• New York Sentinel - Murder, She Wrote
• New York Star - Sex and the City
• New Zork Times - Zork I games. "All the grues that fit, we print"
• Newport Sentinel - Two's Company: All Grown Up
• The News of the Sun - The Goodies
• The Newspapes - Homestar Runner
• Non-Police News - Futurama
• The Northern Star - The Man Who Would Be King
• Orange You Glad This Isn't a Real Magazine - @midnight
• Outhouse Times-Picayune - The Simpsons
• Owl on Sunday - Thursday Next novels
• Oxdown Gazette
• The Papen County Picayune - Pushing Daisies
• The Pickax Picayune - Cat Who... series by Lillian Jackson Braun
• The Pickford Penny Pincher - Phil of the Future (Disney Channel TV series).
• The Picus Daily Standard - Deus Ex: Human Revolution video game
• Porn Bi-Weekly - Inside Amy Schumer
• The Poughkeepsie News - The Shipping News
• The Quahog Informant - Family Guy
• The Red Dress Press - created by Lisa Simpson in The Simpsons episode "Fraudcast News"
• Reform - a newspaper edited by Jim Hacker before his entry into politics in Yes Minister
• Robot Times - Robots
• The Rodent's Gazette, edited by Geronimo Stilton
• Sacramento Register - Eight is Enough
• The Sentinel - The Simpsons
• The St. Cleve Chronicle and Linwell Advertiser - Thick as a Brick
• St. Louis Daily Inquirer - Citizen Kane
• The Schenectadian (The Local's Source for Local News) - Synecdoche, New York
• The Seattle Courier - The 4400
• The Shelbyville Daily - The Simpsons
• Show News - Married... with Children
• The Sidereal Daily Mentioner - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
• The Signal - The Card, based upon real-life North Staffordshire newspaper The Sentinel
• Soup Times - The Soup
• The Springfield Bugle - The Simpsons
• Springfield High News - The Simpsons
• The Springfield Shopper - The Simpsons
• Star Journal - The Nightmare Room
• Star-Times - Box 13 radio show starring Alan Ladd from 1948-49
• The Stradhoughton Echo - Billy Liar
• The Sun - One Life to Live
• The Sunday Comet - Mrs McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie
• The Superjail Inquisitor - Superjail!
• Super School News - South Park
• The Tally Ho - The Prisoner
• The Toad - Thursday Next novels
• Today's Paper - Fatal Instinct
• Tomorrow - owned by Elliot Carver, villain of Tomorrow Never Dies
• The Tonight Show - The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
• The Toronto Gazette - Seeing Things, Law & Order, Murdoch Mysteries
• Townsville Tribune - The Powerpuff Girls
• The Toy - The Toy
• Twin Peaks Gazette - Twin Peaks
• Twin Spin - The Simpsons
• UFO Today - The Simpsons
• Universe Today - Babylon 5
• Usa Newz - Gravity Falls
• The Valadilène Gazette - Syberia
• The Walford Gazette - EastEnders
• The Washington Tribune - Washington D.C. by Gore Vidal
• Weekly New Mexico - Young Guns II
• Weekly Spyglass - Archer
• What All This Then Gazette - The Daily Show
• The Willie T. Ribs Checkered Flag Times - The Proud Family (Disney Channel TV series)
• The Willie World News - The Simpsons
• The Word - major journal of The City (Transmetropolitan comics)
• The World News - South Park
• Yadretsey - Red Dwarf (backwards universe version of Today)

See also

• List of fictional magazines
• List of fictional books
• List of fictional comics

References