Funny Newspaper Name Generator

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Funny newspaper names for skits, school projects, satire sites and game worlds, from The Daily Snooze to The Beacon and Eggs. 500 parody mastheads that play on words many papers share, such as Times, Post and Herald.

About funny newspaper names

A funny newspaper name works because a masthead is such a fixed form. Readers know what to expect after "The Daily", "The Morning" or "The Weekly", so swapping the last word for Snooze, Moan or Exaggerator lands the joke before anyone reads a headline. The other half of the trick is that the classic masthead words all mean something else too: a post holds up a fence, a press makes coffee, a record gets broken, a standard can be double and a bee can spell.

This generator has 500 parody mastheads for school projects, skits, satire sites, game worlds and the family or office newsletter. They run from sleepy dailies (The Daily Yawn) and unreliable sources (The Hearsay Herald) to puns on the masthead words themselves (The Scratching Post, The Garlic Press), small-town gossip sheets, slow news days, school and office papers, animal and food papers, fantasy and sci-fi broadsheets (The Goblin Gazette, The Teleporter Reporter) and jokes about printing itself (The Tyop Times).

The list was drafted to avoid spoofing any one real newspaper, and the humor is kept clean enough for a classroom. If the name is going on something public, such as a satire site, search for it first, because a real paper may already use it.

How to choose funny newspaper names

  • Match the joke to the content. The Slow News Day suits a class paper about nothing much, while The Weekly Exaggerator promises tall tales.
  • Say it out loud. A pun like The Knight Shift or The Reliable Sauce only works if the audience hears the original phrase underneath it.
  • For a game world, tie the masthead to a place or a faction: a goblin market, a space station, a wizard school. One believable paper does more for a setting than a page of lore.
  • Set the name in a serious blackletter or serif masthead. The straighter the design, the funnier the name reads.
  • If it is a satire site, label it as satire somewhere visible so nobody mistakes a joke for a report.

Frequently asked questions

What makes a newspaper name funny?

Most of the humor comes from keeping the serious masthead shape and changing one word. The Daily Snooze, The Morning Moan and The Approximate Times all sound official for two words and then give the game away. Puns on the masthead words themselves, such as The Scratching Post or The Broken Record, work the same way.

Can I use these names for a school newspaper or a class project?

Yes. The list is family friendly, with no crude jokes and no digs at real people. Names such as The Hall Pass, The Pop Quiz Post and The Homework Herald fit a school paper as they are.

Are any of these based on real newspapers?

Not on purpose. They play on common masthead words such as Times, Post, Herald, Gazette and Bugle, which many papers share, and the list was drafted to avoid spoofing a particular paper's name. We have not searched each name, so a real publication somewhere may use one. Look it up before you publish under it.

What are good funny newspaper names for a fantasy or sci-fi game?

Try The Goblin Gazette, The Dungeon Dispatch or The Doom Scroll for a fantasy town, and The Moon Base Bugle or The Teleporter Reporter for a space setting. A paper with a silly name is an easy way to hand players rumors and quest hooks. It also tells them the world has a sense of humor.

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This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

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B: 1 name

  • Between You and Me

C: 2 names

  • Citation Needed
  • Continued on Page Nine

D: 2 names

  • Did You Hear
  • Do Not Quote Us

E: 3 names

  • Every Other Thursday
  • Extra Extra
  • Extra! Extra! Extra Cheese

F: 3 names

  • Final Draft v2 Final
  • Fold Here
  • Forecast Was Wrong Again

H: 4 names

  • Hare Today Gone Tomorrow
  • Headline Goes Here
  • Hear Ye Hear Ye
  • Hot Off the Printer

I: 1 name

  • Insert Name Here

N: 1 name

  • Nothing to Report

O: 2 names

  • Once in a Blue Moon
  • Out of Ink

R: 1 name

  • Read All About It

S: 3 names

  • Same as Yesterday
  • Source: My Cousin
  • Stop the Presses (Too Late)

T: 472 names

  • Take Me to Your Reader
  • Take Our Word for It
  • The Above the Fold
  • The Absent-Minded Observer
  • The Allegedly
  • The Alphabet Soup Sentinel
  • The Annual Afterthought
  • The Anonymous Source
  • The Ant Farm Almanac
  • The Anticlimax
  • The Any Day Now Daily
  • The Approximate Times
  • The Are We There Yet Record
  • The Asteroid Belt Buckle
  • The Auto Pilot
  • The Autocorrect Courier
  • The Baby Monitor
  • The Bacon Beacon
  • The Bake Sale Bugle
  • The Balderdash Banner
  • The Ballpark Figure
  • The Ballyhoo Bugle
  • The Baloney Bugle
  • The Bard Times
  • The Barking News
  • The Beacon and Eggs
  • The Beagle Bugle
  • The Bed Post
  • The Bed Times
  • The Bedtime Negotiator
  • The Bee in a Bonnet
  • The Beep Boop Bulletin
  • The Behind the Times
  • The Beige Pages
  • The Bell Schedule Bugle
  • The Benchwarmer Bulletin
  • The Big Cheese
  • The Big To-Do
  • The Biggest Fish Story

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  • The Biweekly Maybe
  • The Black Hole Bulletin
  • The Black Sheep Bulletin
  • The Blank Banner
  • The Bread Winner
  • The Break Room Bulletin
  • The Breaking News (We Broke It)
  • The Breaking Newts
  • The Broken Record
  • The Bullet Point
  • The Bulletin Bored
  • The Bungled Bugle
  • The Business as Usual Bugle
  • The Busybody Bulletin
  • The Cafeteria Courier
  • The Cash Register
  • The Casual Friday Flyer
  • The Casual Observer
  • The Cat Flap Flyer
  • The Catnap Chronicle
  • The Cauldron Chronicle
  • The Chain Mail
  • The Chance of Showers Chronicle
  • The Chitchat Chronicle
  • The Chore Chart Chronicle
  • The Circle Back Circular
  • The Clarion Call Waiting
  • The Classified Information
  • The Clickbait Courier
  • The Cliffhanger Chronicle
  • The Clone Clone
  • The Club Sandwich
  • The Co-Pilot
  • The Codswallop Chronicle
  • The Cold Coffee Courier
  • The Cold Pizza Courier
  • The Comics Section Only
  • The Commotion Notion
  • The Complaint Department

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  • The Concerned Citizen
  • The Cookie Crumbles
  • The Correction Section
  • The Couch Potato Courier
  • The Could Be Wrong Clarion
  • The Courier and Courier
  • The Court Jester's Corrections
  • The Crickets Courier
  • The Critical Miss
  • The Cross Examiner
  • The Crossword Was Too Hard
  • The Cryosleep Snooze
  • The Crystal Ball Courier
  • The Cul-de-Sac Courier
  • The Cupcake Chronicle
  • The Curtain Twitcher
  • The Dad Joke Journal
  • The Daily Compost
  • The Daily Dawdle
  • The Daily Delay
  • The Daily Dither
  • The Daily Doze
  • The Daily Dragon
  • The Daily Ewes
  • The Daily Grumble
  • The Daily Honk
  • The Daily Mews
  • The Daily Mispirnt
  • The Daily Quack
  • The Daily Shrug
  • The Daily Snooze
  • The Daily Waffle
  • The Daily Yawn
  • The Decaf Dispatch
  • The Dependent Clause
  • The Didn't Register
  • The Dillydally Dispatch
  • The Dog Ate My Homework Daily
  • The Dog Park Dispatch
  • The Dog-Eared Page

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  • The Doom Scroll
  • The Double Standard
  • The Doughnut Hole Truth
  • The Dragon's Hoard Herald
  • The Drizzle Dispatch
  • The Drowsy Dispatch
  • The Dubious Dispatch
  • The Duck Pond Dispatch
  • The Dull Roar
  • The Dungeon Dispatch
  • The Earl Grey Examiner
  • The Early Worm (Regrets)
  • The Eavesdrop Examiner
  • The Echo Chamber
  • The Echo Echo Echo
  • The Educated Guess
  • The Elf Esteem Examiner
  • The Erratum
  • The Espresso Express
  • The Evening Excuse
  • The Evening Moos
  • The Evening Rerun
  • The Evening Snore
  • The Eventually
  • The Falling Star
  • The Family Group Chat Gazette
  • The Fan Mail
  • The Fibber's Friend
  • The Field Trip Tribune
  • The Filler Page
  • The Five More Minutes Morning Edition
  • The Fog Horn
  • The Follow the Leader
  • The Fortnightly Forgetter
  • The French Press
  • The Fridge Door Daily
  • The Front Page Only
  • The Front Porch Report
  • The Full Court Press

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  • The Funhouse Mirror
  • The Galactic Gazette
  • The Garlic Press
  • The Ghost Writer
  • The Give or Take Gazette
  • The Glue Stick Gazette
  • The Gnome News Is Good News
  • The Goal Post
  • The Gobbledygook Gazette
  • The Goblin Gazette
  • The Gold Star Sticker
  • The Goldfish Memory Monthly
  • The Good Gnus
  • The Good Old Times
  • The Goose Gazette
  • The Gossip Gazette
  • The Grain of Salt
  • The Gravy Train Gazette
  • The Gripe Vine
  • The Grizzly Details
  • The Group Project Gripe
  • The Grumble Sheet
  • The Guesswork Gazette
  • The Hairball Herald
  • The Half Truth Herald
  • The Half-Asleep Herald
  • The Halftime Orange Slice
  • The Hall Monitor
  • The Hall Pass
  • The Hamster Wheel Herald
  • The Hangry Herald
  • The Harrumph
  • The Haunted Herald
  • The Hearsay Herald
  • The Hen House Herald
  • The Ho-Hum Herald
  • The Homework Herald
  • The Horoscope Was Wrong
  • The Hot Air Herald

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  • The Hot Cocoa Herald
  • The Hot Potato
  • The Hot Take
  • The Hubbub
  • The Hullabaloo Herald
  • The Humble Pie
  • The Humdrum
  • The Hyperbole
  • The Ill-Informed Informer
  • The Independent Variable
  • The Inside Out Umbrella
  • The Inside Voice
  • The Irrelevant Inquirer
  • The Jackalope Journal
  • The Jalapeno Journal
  • The Junk Mail
  • The Just Kidding Journal
  • The Kerfuffle
  • The Ketchup Column
  • The Kettle Watching Weekly
  • The Knight Shift
  • The Knitting Circle Circular
  • The Koala Tea Times
  • The Lamp Post
  • The Late Edition (Very Late)
  • The Late Riser Ledger
  • The Lawn Envy Ledger
  • The Lazy Ledger
  • The Ledger Demain
  • The Leftover Lasagna Ledger
  • The Leftovers
  • The Legal Eagle
  • The Lettuce Know
  • The Lich Weekly
  • The Light Breeze Bulletin
  • The Light Year Late Edition
  • The Lightning Bug Bugle
  • The Line Leader
  • The Little Bird Told Me
  • The Llama Drama Ledger

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  • The Locker Jam Journal
  • The Loot Table Ledger
  • The Lorem Ipsum Ledger
  • The Low on Toner Times
  • The Lukewarm Tea Times
  • The Main Street Mutter
  • The Meeting That Could Have Been an Email
  • The Microwave Queue Quarterly
  • The Mimic Monitor
  • The Minor Inconvenience
  • The Misinformer
  • The Misprint
  • The Moderately Interesting Times
  • The Molehill Mountain News
  • The Monday Morning Mumbler
  • The Monitor Lizard
  • The Monthly Weekly
  • The Moon Base Bugle
  • The Moose on the Loose News
  • The Morning Bedhead
  • The Morning Croak
  • The Morning Grump
  • The Morning Moan
  • The Morning Mumble
  • The Mostly Accurate
  • The Mostly Sunny Maybe
  • The Much Ado About Nothing
  • The Mummy's Wrap-Up
  • The Mustard Report
  • The Nap Times
  • The Natural One News
  • The Necromancer's Back Issues
  • The Nick of Times
  • The Nitpicker
  • The No Change Chronicle
  • The No News Is Good News
  • The Noodle Doodle
  • The Nosy Neighbor
  • The Nothing Burger Bulletin

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  • The Nothing Happened Herald
  • The Nothing New News
  • The Observer Effect
  • The Occasional
  • The Off the Record
  • The Ogre Observer
  • The Old News
  • The Once Upon a Times
  • The One That Got Away Gazette
  • The One-Star Review
  • The Op-Ed Nobody Asked For
  • The Open Secret
  • The Otter Observer
  • The Out of Office Observer
  • The Over the Fence Gazette
  • The Overthinking Examiner
  • The Own Goal Gazette
  • The Page Left Blank
  • The Page Not Found Press
  • The Paint Drying Post
  • The Panini Press
  • The Pants on Fire Press
  • The Paper Jam Press
  • The Parallel Universe Post
  • The Parking Dispute Dispatch
  • The Parrot Repeater
  • The Participation Trophy Tribune
  • The Partly Cloudy Post
  • The Party Line
  • The Passive Voice
  • The Paw Print Press
  • The Peas and Quiet
  • The Pedant's Post
  • The Pencil Sharpener Press
  • The Penguin Post
  • The Per My Last Email Inquirer
  • The Permanent Press
  • The Permanent Record
  • The Permission Slip

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  • The Pet Peeve Press
  • The Petty Picayune
  • The Picket Fence Post
  • The Pie Chart
  • The Piece of Cake
  • The Pigeon Post
  • The Pillar to Post
  • The Pillow Fort Post
  • The Pilot Episode
  • The Placeholder Post
  • The Platypus Press
  • The Pop Quiz Post
  • The Popcorn Press
  • The Poppycock Post
  • The Porch Swing Press
  • The Post Haste
  • The Press Release
  • The Probably Fine Press
  • The Procrastinator (Out Tomorrow)
  • The Quarterly Quibble
  • The Quest Log
  • The Rain Delay Record
  • The Rearview Mirror
  • The Rearview Review
  • The Recess Record
  • The Recess Times
  • The Record Scratch
  • The Recycling Day Reminder
  • The Refrigerator Magnet
  • The Reliable Sauce
  • The Relish Review
  • The Remote Control Review
  • The Reply All Report
  • The Report Card Reporter
  • The Respawn Report
  • The Return to Sender
  • The Riposte
  • The Robot Uprising Update
  • The Room Temperature Review
  • The Rooster Booster

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  • The Royal Decree (Ignore If Busy)
  • The Rubber Duck Reporter
  • The Ruckus Record
  • The Rumor Mill
  • The Sandwich Board
  • The Scratching Post
  • The Seal of Approval
  • The Second Breakfast Bulletin
  • The Secret Sauce
  • The Seems Legit Ledger
  • The Shaggy Dog Story
  • The Shameless Advertiser
  • The Show and Tell Telegraph
  • The Side Quest Sentinel
  • The Skim Reader
  • The Sleepy Sentinel
  • The Slight Exaggeration
  • The Sloth Express
  • The Slow News Day
  • The Small Potatoes
  • The Smoke and Mirrors
  • The Snack Times
  • The Snail Mail
  • The Snail's Pace
  • The Snooze Button Sentinel
  • The Snow Day Star
  • The Snow Globe
  • The Soapbox
  • The Sock Monster Monitor
  • The Sometimes
  • The Soup of the Day
  • The Sour Grapes Gazette
  • The Sourdough Sentinel
  • The Spam Folder Standard
  • The Spangled Banter
  • The Spelling Bee
  • The Spelling Test Times
  • The Spilled Beans
  • The Spilt Milk Mirror

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  • The Spoiler Alert
  • The Squeaky Recorder
  • The Squirrel Standard
  • The Standard Deviation
  • The Stapler Thief Sentinel
  • The Still Buffering Bulletin
  • The Stolen Thunder
  • The Storm in a Teacup
  • The Stretch of the Truth
  • The Study Hall Snooze
  • The Substandard
  • The Substitute Teacher Sentinel
  • The Suggestion Box
  • The Sunday Snoozer
  • The Sunday Sundae
  • The Taco Tuesday Tribune
  • The Tall Tale Teller
  • The Tardy Tribune
  • The Tattler of Two Cities
  • The Tea Spiller
  • The Tea Times
  • The Technically True Telegraph
  • The Telephone Game
  • The Teleporter Reporter
  • The Thermostat Wars Weekly
  • The Times Table
  • The Tin Can Telegraph
  • The Toast Post
  • The Tortoise Tribune
  • The Town Crier's Day Off
  • The Town Square Tattle
  • The Town Tattler
  • The Tribune and Error
  • The Trivial Tribune
  • The Troll Bridge Toll Times
  • The Trust Me Tribune
  • The Tut-Tut Telegraph
  • The Tyop Times
  • The Typo Tribune

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  • The Unclassifieds
  • The Unconfirmed Report
  • The Undead Letter Office
  • The Under the Weather Report
  • The Understatement
  • The Uneventful
  • The Unobservant Observer
  • The Unpopular Opinion
  • The Unreliable Narrator
  • The Vampire Evening Edition
  • The Wagging Tale
  • The Waiting Room Weekly
  • The Weakly Weekly
  • The Weather Vane Weekly
  • The Weekly Exaggerator
  • The Weekly Whatever
  • The Weekly Whoops
  • The Weekly Wizard
  • The Weekly Wombat
  • The Well Actually
  • The Well-Informed Parrot
  • The Werewolf Monthly
  • The Whale Mail
  • The Whale of a Tale
  • The Whenever
  • The Whisper Weekly
  • The Whistle Blower
  • The Whole Enchilada
  • The Whose Turn Is It Tribune
  • The Wild Guess Weekly
  • The Wizard's Almanac of Excuses
  • The Wobbly Globe
  • The Word on the Street
  • The Word Salad
  • The Wormhole Weekly
  • The Yawn Report
  • The Yearly Daily
  • The Zero Gravity Gazette
  • This Space for Rent
  • Too Long Didn't Read

U: 1 name

  • Untitled Document

W: 1 name

  • We Regret the Error

Y: 3 names

  • Yesterday's News
  • You Didn't Hear It from Me
  • You Won't Believe Number Seven