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

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
• Prempal: The Voice Of Millions
• AFOL Times - Lego Atlantis: The Movie
• The Albuquerque Sun-Bulletin - Ace in the Hole
• 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 Chronicle - Perfect Strangers (TV series)
• Chicago Herald-Star -V. I. Warshawski detective novels, where Murray Ryerson works
• The Chicago Star - Night Beat
• 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
• Coastal News - Home and Away
• The Collinsport Star - Dark Shadows
• The Comet - The Naked Truth
• Common Sense - The Two Georges
• Cornwood Times - Futurama
• 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 Chronicle - Pushing Daisies
• 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 Second 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 - 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)
• The Daily Tattler - Railroad Tycoon (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 Denver Star - The Return of Frank James
• 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
• Erinsborough News - Neighbours
• 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 Ford County Times - The Last Juror (referenced also in other John Grisham works)
• Fowl Times - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures
• 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
• Haliford Argus - They Walk in the City by J. B. Priestley
• 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
• Hurleyburg News - Beetle Bailey
• The Indianapolis Daily Inquirer - The Magnificent Ambersons
• The Independent News Service - Kolchak: The Night Stalker
• 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
• Lakeshore Globe - Pushing Daisies
• Lakeville - The Underworld Story
• 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 London Hue & Cry - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
• 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
• The Martian Chronicle - Futurama
• 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 News-Argus - The Gray Seal book series
• 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 New York Times - 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 Morning Globe - Foreign Correspondent
• 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 Journal - 27 Dresses
• 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"
• New York World - 2 Broke Girls
• 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
• Pearl Bailey High Bugle - American Dad!
• 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
• Ponyville Confidential - My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
• Porn Bi-Weekly - Inside Amy Schumer
• Port Charles Press (formerly the Port Charles Sun) - General Hospital
• The Post Virus Post - The Last Man on Earth
• The Poughkeepsie News - The Shipping News
• The Quahog Informant - Family Guy
• The Raccoon City Times - Resident Evil
• The Red Dress Press - created by Lisa Simpson in The Simpsons episode "Fraudcast News"
• Reform - 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 Hitchhiker's 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
• Thorndyke Press - State of the Union
• 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 Herald - The Pelican Brief
• 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, in Transmetropolitan comics
• The World News - South Park
• Yadretsey - Red Dwarf (backwards universe version of Today)
• The Zombie Gazette - Freaks of Nature
• Daily Bugle - Spider-Man

See also

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

References