2025 member survey

Key findings from our survey of 77 local and independent Australian news publishers.

This 2025 survey of LINA members provides a snapshot profile of Australian news organisations, and shares insight into the unique challenges and successes experienced by the publishers of local and independent news services.

This includes: 

  • 77 news organisations
  • With 139 newsrooms/mastheads

Media contact:
Nell O’Shea Carré
nell.oshea.carre@lina.org.au
+61 468 774 682

LINA supports newsrooms all the way from inception (see our Newsroom Starter Kit) to established, sustainable news organisations.

To be eligible for LINA membership, these independent newsrooms must be producing high-quality, public interest journalism, and meet a number of other requirements.

The Molong Express Inside Story The Gold Coast Minute The Redland City Minute The Toowoomba Minute Rocky News The Townsville Times The Mackay Minute The News Naracoorte The Pyrenees Advocate The Stawell Times-News The Ararat Advocate
90.1 2NBC FM News of the Midlands The Bridgetown-Greenbushes Star The South Sydney Herald Indigenous Community Television Boiling Cold Kwedu News Victorian Aboriginal News The Indian Sun North Coast Times About Time Media Ltd 2SER
Thought Digest Media Moree Online News Village Voice The Rotunda Hopetoun Courier Town and Country Journal EducationHQ Ausbiz Flying Solo The Big Issue Michael West Media TrueNorth News
Ballina News Daily Man of Many Podwires Parra News City Hub Fair Comment North West City News The Wire The National Account The Little Echo Niche Radio Il Globo
The Argus The Dimboola Banner Mencari The Bugle PS Media Waranga News 8CCC Community Radio IndyNR.com Moruya Mail The Fold Illawarra The Fold Southern Highlands Dooral Roundup
Galston, Glenorie & Hills Rural News Hills to Hawkesbury Mosman Collective Inner City News The Local Paper Southbank News Docklands News CBD News Yanchep News Online Wimmera Mallee News North Sydney Sun MyCity Logan
Central Coast Council Watch The Fleurieu App South Burnett Online The Pineapple National Indigenous Radio Service Croakey Health Media The Westsider New England Times Murray Bridge News The Post Sydney Times QNews
Newsport 4EB Your Time Magazine Your Money & Your Life Wimmera Mallee Sport Wimmera Farmer Warracknabeal Herald The Western Weekender The Western Plains App The West Vic Brolga The Weekend Edition The Southern Cross
The Riverine Grazier The Point The North Shore Lorikeet The New Daily The Mid North Coaster The Mandarin The Lake News The Gippsland Monitor The Coonamble Times The Blue Mountains Record Tamborine Mountain News Startup Daily
SmartCompany Salt SALIFE Region Canberra Region Riverina Region Property Guide Region Illawarra Region Chinese News Of The Area Port Stephens News Of The Area Nambucca Valley News Of The Area Myall Coast News Of The Area Gloucester District
News Of The Area Dungog Shire News Of The Area Coffs Coast News Of The Area Camden Haven My Weekly Preview Murraylands Life Kochie’s Business Builders InReview SA InReview QLD InDaily Queensland InDaily Eastern Melburnian Crikey
Coast Lines CityMag Central Coast Daily Cape York Weekly Canungra Times Braidwood Bugle Bradfield Bulletin Beaudesert Bulletin Back Country Bulletin About Regional Coast Community News New Norfolk and Derwent Valley News
4RFM Western Echo Unmade 1661 Neos Kosmos Missing Perspectives Gympie Living Prom Coast News Bass Coast Post Chifley Community Matters East Regional View One Earth Media
Tasmanian Inquirer TwISK – This Week in St Kilda The Lismore App Wangki Yupurnanupurru The Jewish Independent The Klaxon Women’s Agenda Tasmanian Times Kendra News Australia In the Cove The SE Voice The Illawarra Flame
Fitzmedia Live Brunswick Voice Glen Innes News Manly Observer Manningham Life The Conversation

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See what LINA can do to help your newsroom, contact us with any questions, or apply for membership!



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