For a brain-storming session on a name for a new local Indianapolis paper, these were some of our ideas. Apparently, I’m the only one who thinks the name “Naptown Argus” as a Indianapolis newspaper is laugh-out-loud funny. Hmmm. Too much Greek Mythology as a child, not enough playing outside.
(edited to add suggestions from reader comments):
Acorn
Advance
Appeal
Argus
Banner
Beacon
Beaver (Bakersfield Beaver!)
Brief
Bee
Breeze
Bugle
Bulletin
Bumble Bee
Call
Camera
Chronicle
Citizen
City Press
Constitution
Courier
Current
Daily Home
Daily Mail
Daily Star
The Derrick
Discovery
Dispatch
Eagle
Echo
Enterprise
Examiner
Exponent
Express
Eye
Forum
Free Press
Gazette
Globe
Guardian
Guide
Herald
Humbug
Islander
Inquirer
Intelligencer
Journal
Juggernaut
Leader
Ledger
Life
Mercury
Messenger
Meteor
Monitor
Mosquito
Observer
Oracle
Pantagraph (Bloomington (IL) Daily Pantagraph)
Picayune
Pilot
Pioneer
Planet
Post
Radio
Rag
Record
Recorder
Reflector
Repository
Republic
Review
Sentinel
Sentry
Standard
Statesman
Sun
Telegraph
Today
Tribune
Union
Universe
Vanguard
Vindicator (Youngstown, Ohio)
Voice
Watchmen
Whigs
World
Zephyr
Zeitung (Zeitung = newspaper in German)
Thnx for all those great ideas. I’m working on a school project that required making up a newspaper name. I used a few of the ideas above but can’t decide which is better, hope someone can help me:
Universal Chronicle
Chronicle Tribune
Chronicle Today
Chronicle Reflector
Chronicle Gazette
Chronicle Echo
BTW, it’s about historical stuff!
Thnx again!
thnx a mil. saved mah life. needed this for a l.a.essay aha(:
thankks so much!!!! i wuz doing a project and wuz desperate for a title! this wuz PERFECT(:
Thanks for the great list. Did you imagine this list would still be getting comments over 6 years later?
My wife’s hometown newspaper is the Putnam County Vidette.
Thank you for posting this… you really helped me with my project!
We have, The Valley Breeze,
I know right I am doing a school newspaper
Thank you so much! I felt that there would be no place that would focus on names! They are awesome thanks!
I especially like “Voice”
So awesome! My friends and I are making a homeschool newspaper and this really helped! We had NO idea what to name the newspaper, and YOU ARE AWESOME. 😀 Thanks again!!! 😀
How about the Democrat, the Republican, and the Independent? Great list though–saved me gobs of time in a renaming project.
keep”horizon”and “eye in the world
Try Xavier, Zing, Yodel, or Yell. Some z’s are already up there. P.S. Some people are blind. V’s are already up there ya’ll!
this page gives me an idea bout the title of our school paper
thanks a lot…
Did a google search for newspaper names. Hard to believe my old college roomie’s list was number one. Small world!
Why not Outlook?
I made up holston view ca-hoooooots for the main title(H.V.= school, owl= mascot) and bristol bulletin for a sub heading! Thanks 4 the insperation!
Thanks you guys, this was really helpful with my research project at school.
the Pinecone in Carmel By the Sea, CA
Record Delta
Exponent Telegram
Countian
Paper (as in Washington City Paper)
Then there’s also colors, like school colors (Georgetown’s The Blue & Gray, or UGA’s The Red & Black)
how about “View” just for another one in the V section
Lexington, Massachusetts has the ‘Minuteman’
What about Narrative newspaper?
the sexie grizzlys
Thanks so much, id been stressing for my hisory project…which is also why everyone else is here, but you saved my tush thanks (:
The Good 5 Cent Cigar — University of Rhode Island’s student newspaper
Good list. Still helping people out years later.
Juggernaut <3
hahahahaha I get it. because Argus is the hundred eyed giant that never sleeps XD
X’s!!!!! I need the x’s!!! Our school is Xi’an Int. School (XIS) and our mascot is the Terracotta Warrior. Suggestions are more than welcome. I thought of The Warrior Ledger….. ehhhhh….
the highschool paper in Sultan was called the Sultan Pepper