List of fictional newspapers

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

Fictional newspapers

From the Discworld series

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

From Metalocalypse

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

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)

From the DC Universe

• Action Bulletin News - tabloid in Superman comics (with a logo similar to Action Comics)
• The Bulletin - a newspaper in the Superman Universe, shown in Showdown
• 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
• Gotham Gazette - Batman comics, Vicki Vale's employer
• Gotham Globe - Batman comics, Batman: The Movie, Batman (film), Vicki Vale's employer
• The Manhattan Guardian - Seven Soldiers:Manhattan Guardian
• Metropolis Herald Superman
• Metropolis Star - Superman
• Morning Pictorial - Superman
• Morning Globe - Superman
• Morning Star - a newspaper in the Superman Universe, shown in Showdown
• The Smallville Ledger - Smallville (TV series)
• The Torch - Smallville (TV series)
• World and the Globe - Superman

From miscellaneous

• Aeoman Journal - MADtv
• The Amity Gazette - Jaws
• 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 Bay Mirror - Charmed
• Beach Times - Surf II: The End of the Trilogy
• The Borchester Echo - The Archers
• The Beast and The Daily Brute- Newspapers in Scoop (Novel by Evelyn Waugh)
• Bikini Bottom News - SpongeBob SquarePants
• Bloom Picayune and Bloom Beacon - Milo Bloom's papers in Bloom County
• The Brentford Mercury - Robert Rankin novels
• The Boston Telegraph - The Dead Zone
• The Caledonian - Complicity
• 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 Chronicle - Perfect Strangers
• Cleveland Bee - The Soup
• The Comet - The Naked Truth
• Courier Sun - Leave It to Beaver
• Da NewsPapes - Homestar Runner
• The Daily (Newspaper of the Year) - Penelope
• The Daily Bugle - Marvel Comics, especially Spider-Man
• The Daily Chronicle - Newspaper from The Monkees TV Series
• The Daily Chronicle - Newspaper from The Great Muppet Caper
• The Daily Chronicle - Newspaper from The Brady Bunch
• The Daily Comet- a British tabloid owned by Derek Leech in Kim Newman's fiction
• 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 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 Slab - The Flintstones
• 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 Dog River Howler - Dog River's official newspaper in Corner Gas
• Evergreen Standard - The Raccoons
• The Evening Prophet - The evening edition of the Daily Prophet in Harry Potter
• Fairwater Gazette - The Frighteners
• The Financial Preview - The New Statesman
• The Flash - Brenda Starr
• The Framley Examiner
• The Gammy Bird - The Shipping News novel & The Shipping News film
• Hill Valley Telegraph - Back to the Future
• Hooterville World Guardian- Petticoat Junction
• Hope Falls Journal - Hope Falls Newspaper from the PSP exclusive video game, Dead Head Fred.
• The Inquisitor - Zork Grand Inquisitor
• The Inquisitor - Silent Hill (video game) Bill Skins Fifth reference
• La Paris - Santa Claus: The Movie
• Langley Falls Post - the newspaper which appears in the opening credits of each American Dad! episode
• The Latest News - Homestar Runner
• Lawndale Sun-Herald - Daria
• Liberty Tree - Liberty City Newspaper in the Grand Theft Auto series of video games.
• The Local Newspapes - Homestar Runner
• The Los Angeles Sun - My Favorite Martian television series, where Tim works
• The Los Angeles Suit - Death Wish 2
• The Los Angeles Tribune - Lou Grant
• The Maycomb Tribune - To Kill a Mockingbird
• The Miami Record-Dispatch - Dave's World
• 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 New York Post - Futurama
• The News of the Sun - The Goodies
• The Newspapes - Homestar Runner
• The New York Banner - The Fountainhead
• New York Chronicle - Citizen Kane, Woman of the Year
• New York Daily Inquirer - Citizen Kane
• 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 Ledger - Law & Order
• New York Sentinel - Law & Order
• New York Sentinel (unconnected with the above) - The Adventures of Hiram Holliday
• New York Star - Sex and the City
• New Zork Times - Zork I games. "All the grues that fit, we print"
• The Northern Star - The Man Who Would Be King
• 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
• The Poughkeepsie News - The Shipping News
• Quahog Informant - Family Guy
• The Red Dress Press - a newspaper created by Lisa Simpson in The Simpsons episode "Fraudcast News"
• Reform - a newspaper formerly 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 Seattle Courier - The 4400
• The Schenectadian (The Local's Source for Local News) - Synecdoche, New York
• The Shelbyville Daily - The Simpsons
• The Sidereal Daily Mentioner - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
• Soup Times - The Soup
• Star Journal - The Nightmare Room
• The St. Cleve Chronicle and Linwell Advertiser - Thick as a Brick
• St. Louis Daily Inquirer - Citizen Kane
• The Springfield Shopper - The Simpsons
• Star-Times - Box 13 radio show starring Alan Ladd from 1948-49
• The Sun - One Life to Live
• The Sunday Comet - Mrs McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie
• 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 Toronto Gazette - Law & Order
• Twin Peaks Gazette - Twin Peaks
• Universe Today - Babylon 5
• The Valadilène Gezatte - Syberia
• The Walford Gazette - EastEnders
• Weekly New Mexico - Young Guns II
• The Willie T. Ribs Checkered Flag Times - The Proud Family (Disney Channel TV series)
• The Word - major journal of The City (Transmetropolitan comics)
• Yadretsey - Red Dwarf (Backwards universe version of Today)

See also

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