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)
You should add ‘Weekly’ and ‘Times’. Just a suggestion.
Smiths Falls Citizen
When I was making the list, I intended to focus on unusual newspaper names, which is why I left of weekly, daily, times, news, etc. I also left out a common one – Star – because we were tossing around the names for a new Indianapolis paper, and we already have an Indy Star. We eventually settled on IndyScribe.
thank you this was helpful with a project i did
A great list!
How about “Guardian” (as in Manchester)
dispatch
add bumble bee……
thanx, this was rly helpful!!!
How come you don’t have one that starts with a ‘V’? haha That’s the only letter i need.
Visionary
You might want to add The Derrick to your list. It is a newspaper from Oil City, PA.
Hmmm, can anybody come up with one that starts with X, Y or Z?
Ps. This is a really cool list of newspaper names, its really helpful!
How funny, Steph. I searched for “newspaper names” on Google and clicked the first entry without really looking. It brought me to your site – as if I don’t spend enough time floating around here the way it is! *grins*
I like how so many of them have some sort of “watch dog” connotation. Argus is one of those, but also Sentinel, Observer, Monitor.
My brothers used to deliver the “Canton Repository” when we were kids. I still have one of their paper delivery bags from that paper.
Add republic, inquirer, journal, and today
Carlisle (MA) Mosquito
and for the audacious…
the juggernaut
you should put the meteor and the universe
Daily Home
fredericksburg standard-radio post (a small central texas weekly)
Thank you for doing this. Tucson, Arizona has a paper called the Arizona Daily Star and San Francisco has the Examiner.
I was looking for a Y too. To name my classroom newsletter since my last name is Yonge. I decided to go with Tribune because it has the y sound in it.
For X maybe exchange or one of the other listed ex names and for z, well, I think Gazette is all I can think of.
What about the “Oracle”?
highland humbug?
thanks this is really helpful!!! i’m glad someone thought about doing this!!!
I was doing a project, and couldn’t think of a name to call my newspaper. So I googled it as a last resort, and wow, this is beyond what I was excpecting to find. Great work, and thanks a million.
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oh thanks it pretty good too!
how about Breif?
Just a few I thought of: Bee (like in Sacramento, Modesto, Fresno, CA), Call (San Francisco), Mercury (San Jose), Constitution (Atlanta), Picayune (New Orleans), Record (Stockton), Pilot (several places); but, still, a good list!
thnx….it really helped lotz…..u rock!!!!!
this was so helpful while i was working on my school project! thanks a bunch. =)
i used dispatch for a school project
Hold on, are we all coming here for our history class?!? Seriously, I think thats why we are all here! lol.
The Comox Vally “Echo” and “Record”.
The “Upper Islander” (as in Vancouver Island).
The Discovery “Islander” (Quadra Island).
Haha!! Thanks for this list, im brain dead by the time i can think of a title! 8^)
try crossroads, lol helpful list
have any suggestions for a worldly newspaper name? mabye using globe or life?
ThanX!!!!
awesome sight!! really helpful with our second-year journalism term assignments (three newsroom days with a full publication) thanks so much, i think we’re going to go with the audacious juggernaut…. 🙂
Cecil County, Maryland offers readers the “Cecil County Whig,” while the “Quincy Herald-Whig” lives on in Quincy, Ill.
They are only apparently remaining Whigs left in America, although there’s a Kingston, Canada “Kingston Whig Standard.”
haha… i needed a ‘V’ one also.
but thank you! icombined 2 of these
names for a porject i did!
very helpful!
♥adrii
awesome, thanks a toN!
Shawville Equity (Quebec)
Awesome list! Thanks so much. Adding Recorder (S.F.)
Thanks a bunch ! This was really helpful!!!
I guess they never heard of the Rock Island Argus in Illinois.
Hey awesome list.
i kno what ur talkin bout cuz im here also fo my socail studies project!! LOL!!
this website was very, very helpful to me…thanx a mil.!!
Hello. I am 13 years old and was thinking about making a school newspaper. I needed names and subjects to write about. I already had the original ones…like horror scopes, weather, sports, and even something like Dear Abbie. Even advertisements…then there were names like: daily, times, examiner, but thats all I really came up with…I really needed this. It rreeaallllyyy helped me. thanks!!!
-Katie
Great List! I was looking for both E’s (Echo, Express, and Examiner) and P’s (Post) You have saved me oodles of time!
V name — The Vindicator (Youngstown, Ohio); Liberty (Texas) Vindicator
Z name — New Braunfels (Texas) Herald-Zeitung (Zeitung = newspaper in German)
Nice list. Thanks.
you should add “the rag” too. you know, for those laid back kind of papers 😉