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.

Star Observer The Wimmera Mail-Times News of the Area Port Macquarie Post National Indigenous Times Perth is OK! North Coast Post PS News First Nations News Hawkesbury Gazette 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 Moree Online News Village Voice
The Rotunda Hopetoun Courier Town and Country Journal The Big Issue Michael West Media Ballina News Daily Man of Many Parra News City Hub North West City News The Wire The National Account
Il Globo The Argus The Dimboola Banner The Financial Register The Bugle 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 Wimmera Farmer Warracknabeal Herald The Western Weekender The Western Plains App The West Vic Brolga 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 Region Canberra Region Riverina 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 InDaily Queensland InDaily Eastern Melburnian Crikey Central Coast Daily
Cape York Weekly Canungra Times Braidwood Bugle Bradfield Bulletin Beaudesert Bulletin About Regional Coast Community News New Norfolk and Derwent Valley News 4RFM Western Echo Unmade 1668
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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