This article showcases our top picks for the best Minnesota based News companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the News industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top Minnesota News Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
BringMeTheNews
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BringMeTheNews offers a network of online and social media sites providing news on events in Minnesota.
Buzz360
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Entrepreneurs don’t start a business because they love marketing; they start a business because of a passion.
Quantum Retail
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Quantum Retail offers Q platform, enabling retailers to make changes based on how customers behave in the marketplace.
TECHdotMN
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TECHdotMN is a news network focused on providing news for technology and startup culture.
American Public Media
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American Public Media Group is engaged in public radio, theater rental, commercial radio, and publishing activities.
Star Tribune Media
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Star Tribune Media is communication media which provide the services of news and information.
Totally Interactive Weather
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TiWi is a national digital media organization blending weather technologies to deliver advertising and weather services to online visitors.
AirVuz
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AirVūz is an aerial video and photography sharing platform and global community for drone pilots and aerial media enthusiasts.
Pioneer Press
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Twin Cities news, sports, politics, entertainment and business from the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minnesota’s first newspaper.
A Bullseye View
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A Bullseye View is an online magazine, blog, and a marketing forum that offers latest fashion industry related information to its users.
West Academic
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Leading publisher of casebooks, treatises, study aids and other legal education materials in the United States.
MinnPost
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MinnPost is a nonprofit, nonpartisan enterprise whose mission is to provide high-quality journalism for news-intense.
Tremendous! Entertainment
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Tremendous! Entertainment is an entertainment company that provides production services.
Beingful
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Empowering humanity to create and share civic challenges
KARE 11
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KARE 11 is a full-service news station for Minneapolis, St. Paul Minnesota.
Hubbard Broadcasting
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Hubbard Broadcasting is dedicated to making news content easily accessible to all users. They are essentially a web innovation and mobile
Outdoor News
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Outdoor News is providing day to day outdoor news about hunting & fishing.
RiverTowns.net
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RiverTowns.net is a digital newspaper that provides information on the business, lifestyle, entertainment, sports, and weather.
City Pages
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The News & Arts weekly of the Twin Cities brings you the best of our editorial content, ticket giveaways, and prizes. Be a dear.
StoryTeller Media & Communications
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StoryTeller Media & Communications
PostBulletin.com
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Post-Bulletin is a daily newspaper that covers news and stories of Rochester and southeastern Minnesota.
MintPress News
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MintPress News publishes information on corporatocracy, imperialism and civil liberties.
Intermat
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Intermat is a media source which specializes in the field of wrestling.
The Society Pages
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The Society Pages is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota.
Big Fish Works
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Big Fish Works which operates the newspapers and websites of Southwest News Media.
St Cloud TIMES
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St.Cloud TIMES is a multi-media company with St. Cloud Times, sctimes.com and Shopping News as key brands.
East View Information Services
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East View Information Services is an information services company offering books, periodicals, and microforms.
Next Avenue
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Next Avenue is a new public television online destination aimed at Americans 50+ who want to maintain vibrant lives and who have
KSTP TV LLC.
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KSTP-TV Channel 5, the upper Midwest’s first commercial television station, is owned by the pioneering broadcasting company.
1DollarClub.org
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1DollarClub.org provides support for children after a tragic loss.
SWnewsmedia
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SWnewsmedia offers information, advertising, multi-media news, and digital marketing services.
10 Missions Media
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10 Missions Media is a media firm that publishes print & digital content covering news, information & strategies in the automotive market.
TechMix
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TechMix is an industry-acknowledged leader in hydration & stress event solutions for production animals in Stewart, Minnesota.
Finance & Commerce
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Finance & Commerce is a newspapers company that offers business news in Minnesota.
Adams Radio Group
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Adams Radio Group is a broadcast media company that offers radio advertising and marketing services.
Gazette Review
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A Crowd sourced, inside look at the news you care about
The SunPost
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The SunPost is the online newspaper website for the city of Osseo, Minnesota.
The Minnesota Daily
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The Minnesota Daily is a newspaper company that publishes news about multimedia, podcast, sports, healthcare, arts and entertainment.
RACmonitor
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RACmonitor provides online healthcare news and information services.
committee films
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Committee Films is a broadcast media company based in Minneapolis.
Twin Cities Business
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Twin Cities Business is a business resource, offering daily news and an in-depth look at local companies and business people.
Blue Star Media
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A leading event, media, and entertainment company
KTV Media
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Ktv Media is a media production company coverages educational,sports,government.
I2Arabic
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I2Arabic is an online Arabic newspaper publishing company.
Hubbard Media Group
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Hubbard Media Group, LLC, along with its subsidiaries, owns and operates cable/satellite networks.
MarketingBridge
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MarketingBridge provides a SaaS application that enables marketing and sales materials to their channel partners.
KBJR-TV
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KBJR-TV is a broadcast media company based in Northland.
Feedstuffs
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Feedstuffs provides the latest news and analysis on food, agriculture and farming.
FOX 21 KQDS-DT
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FOX 21 is a broadcast media company providing news, sports, and weather updates.
Independent Delivery Service Inc
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ISD is a distributer of 3rd class mail and newspaper inserts for businesses.
Woodworker’s Journal Magazine
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Woodworker’s Journal Magazine is a america’s Leading Woodworking Authority.
SemiAccurate
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SemiAccurate is a technology news site focusing not just on the new shiny stuff but the how and why behind the technology they use.
Wise Ink Creative Publishing
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Wise Ink is a book publishing agency for writers, bloggers, consultants, and businesses. We help purpose-driven content creators refine,
iGame Responsibly
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The origins of “responsible gaming” came by way of our overall group dynamic.
UniqueScreen Media
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UniqueScreen Media is a company that was acquired by Screenvision in 2011.
HealthNewsReview.org
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HealthNewsReview.org is the only project of its kind in the U.S., trying to improve the quality of health care journalism
Pine Journal
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Pine Journal is a multimedia company that publishes news, weather reports, sports, obituaries, education and business information.
Microgrid Media
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News about the Clean, Distributed Energy Transition. Covering Energy Storage, Smartgrids, Solar Energy, Electrification, Renewable energy
KIMT-TV
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KIMT-TV is a broadcast media company providing local and national news.
Georgia Digest
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Georgia Digest is your best source for the most updated and relevant health and lifestyle news, as well as the latest fashion trends.
Space2Burn New Media
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Space2Burn New Media is a company dedicated to design web-sites and web related applications.
Park Rapids Enterprise
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Park Rapids Enterprise is a news company that covers business, education, social and sports news as well as offers advertising services.
Red Rock Radio Corporation
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Red Rock Radio Corporation is a broadcast media company that offers music and entertainment services in Minnesota.
The Fm Extra
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The Fm Extra offers publishing and advertising services.
BrightTitan
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BrightTitan is a publisher of technology news.
WCCO-TV
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WCCO-TV is a CBS television affiliate that provides local news to viewers in Minnesota.
Fairmont Photo Press
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Fairmont Photo Press offers a weekly newspaper and commercial printing services such as posters, letterheads, and business cards.
Minnesota Business Magazine
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Minnesota Business is a Magazine providing news and information on entrepeneurs and midsize companies.
The Stream
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The Stream is a media & news company that serves as a source for breaking news, analysis and inspiration.
Launchmania
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Launchmania is a new product launch company where brands can promote new consumer products coming to market and gain a large audience.
LBM Journal
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LBM Journal is a media firm that offers updates and news through magazines, e-newsletters and digital publications.
Gnomi
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Gnomi is to facts in news by defining the level of media bias in various sources, overtly stating bias, and for both sides of the story.
Public Insight Network
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Through Spot.Us the public can commission journalists to do investigations on important and perhaps overlooked stories.
TalkGuyStuff.com
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TalkGuyStuff.com provides men with an informative and entertaining online experience.
Minnov8
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Minnov8 was started in early 2008 to focus on technology innovation in the State of Minnesota.
Lake and Pine Publications
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Lake and Pine Publications is a news publishing company.
MNspeak.com
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MN Speak is a small chatroom and news provider.