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Global Satire
Global Satire
A worldwide directory of 125 active satire outlets
A worldwide directory of 125 active satire outlets
Research edition checked 2026-09-14. Coverage: 48 country, territory or regional labels; 125 active or currently maintained outlets.
Satire travels well, but it does not become uniform when it crosses a border. The mock newspaper is only one branch of a much larger global form: print weeklies, student magazines, editorial-cartoon desks, radio shows, television ensembles, video collectives and webcomics all use comedy to make institutions visible. This directory brings those forms together while preserving their differences.
The first 20 entries reproduce the order supplied for this project. That order is not an independently calculated league table. Entries 21–125 are numbered for reference and grouped geographically, not ranked by traffic, authority, politics or quality.
What the global map shows
What the global map shows
Four patterns stand out. First, the deadpan fictional-news format is genuinely international because readers understand the visual grammar of a news story almost instantly. Second, the most memorable publications are rarely generic: Betoota's imaginary Queensland newspaper, Grönköping's fictional Swedish town and Bell Tower Times' intense Perth specificity all show that locality is an asset, not a limitation. Third, much of the strongest political satire is hybrid work—cartoons beside reporting, commentary beside sketches, or parody inside a larger magazine. Finally, the apparent English-language dominance of web lists partly reflects discoverability. In many countries, satire is distributed through television, YouTube, messaging apps, print kiosks or social platforms rather than a search-friendly standalone site.
A worldwide directory also needs a firm editorial boundary. Labelled satire aims to be recognised as comic or fictional in context; deceptive fake-news operations aim to be mistaken for factual reporting. The difference can collapse when a screenshot or headline is reposted without its source, which is why every entry below links to the original outlet and records its format and status.
Method and inclusion rules
Method and inclusion rules
This edition includes identifiable publications or programs that primarily create satire, or maintain a clearly labelled satire section. The active test was evidence of publishing or a maintained current edition in 2026, with an 18-month allowance for intentionally intermittent outlets. A few pages blocked automated review; those are marked rather than treated as fully verified. Defunct archives, parked domains, deceptive hoax farms and generic humor aggregators without a stable editorial identity were excluded.
Status labels matter: hybrid means satire sits beside factual commentary or other editorial forms; intermittent means recent but irregular publishing; emerging means a young outlet whose long-term cadence is not yet established; visual, audio, video and television identify formats that should not be judged as text magazines; and crawl blocked flags a site requiring a manual browser check.
This is a snapshot, not a permanence guarantee. Ownership, editorial direction, domains and publication schedules can change. Inclusion documents an outlet's current identity; it is not an endorsement of every joke, claim or political position.
Regional coverage at a glance
Regional coverage at a glance
UK & Ireland: 20 outlets
North America: 30 outlets
Continental Europe: 35 outlets
Latin America & Caribbean: 13 outlets
Africa & Middle East: 10 outlets
Asia & Oceania: 17 outlets
Starting list supplied for this project
Starting list supplied for this project
Domain: prat.uk · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: Politics, royalty and international satire · Status: Active — crawl blocked
A British mock-news title with a broad brief: Westminster, royalty, culture and international affairs. Its topical range can support a general-interest satire magazine, although its blocked automated crawl makes current cadence harder to assess than most entries here.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The live domain returned a 403 to the automated audit; its indexed presence and the supplied seed were retained, with a manual recheck advised.
Domain: bohiney.com · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: Politics, culture and current-affairs satire · Status: Active
A high-volume American parody-news site mixing politics, sport, culture, technology and deliberately overblown newsroom language. The breadth gives it magazine-like coverage, but readers should expect a strong editorial voice and uneven subject depth rather than neutral reporting.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official homepage carried articles dated September 11, 2026.
Domain: theonion.com · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: Deadpan parody news · Status: Active
The best-known modern American parody newspaper, founded in print in 1988 and later transformed into a digital publication. Its straight-faced house style remains a reference point for headline construction, escalation and the use of invented reporting to expose real social absurdities.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official domain is active; robots.txt blocked the automated page review.
Domain: thedailymash.co.uk · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: British news and everyday-life satire · Status: Active
A British daily satire site launched in 2007, built around short, brisk news spoofs and list-driven observations. It moves easily between Westminster, relationships, work, sport and middle-class habits, making it one of the clearest UK examples of a broad digital satire magazine.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official homepage displayed current September 2026 material during verification.
Domain: private-eye.co.uk · Language: English · Format: Print magazine and website · Style: Political satire, investigations and cartoons · Status: Active — hybrid
Founded in 1961, Private Eye combines jokes, cartoons and recurring satirical columns with genuine investigative reporting. That mixture is its distinction: it is not a pure fake-news operation, but a news-and-current-affairs magazine whose comic voice and reporting reinforce one another.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site promoted the current magazine and online material on September 14, 2026.
Domain: babylonbee.com · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: Conservative Christian and political satire · Status: Active
A US satire brand launched in 2016 with a conservative Christian perspective, later expanding into general politics and culture. Its clear ideological positioning produces a loyal audience, but it also means the site is best understood as viewpoint satire rather than a politically neutral comedy outlet.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official homepage served current material on September 14, 2026.
Domain: newsthump.com · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: Rapid-response political parody · Status: Active
A fast-turnaround British mock-news site focused on politics, public life and widely shared news events. Its value lies in speed and recognisable premises: stories usually begin with a real headline and push its logic to an absurd but immediately legible conclusion.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official homepage identified itself as UK spoof news and displayed current material.
Domain: thepoke.com · Language: English · Format: Digital humor publication · Style: Viral humor, reactions and curated satire · Status: Active — hybrid
A UK humor site that combines original jokes with curated social-media reactions, clips and topical roundups. It is less a conventional parody newspaper than a fast-moving comedy desk, useful for seeing how satire travels through memes, screenshots and audience commentary.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official homepage was live with current trending material on September 14, 2026.
Domain: reductress.com · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: Women’s-media and lifestyle parody · Status: Active
Founded in 2013, Reductress parodies the language and assumptions of women’s lifestyle media. Its headlines and first-person pieces target beauty standards, work, dating, wellness and feminism, showing how a sharply defined editorial lens can create a coherent magazine identity.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official homepage served current articles on September 14, 2026.
Domain: clickhole.com · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: Absurdist clickbait and internet parody · Status: Active
Created in 2014 as a parody of viral-content publishing, ClickHole pushes quizzes, lists, confessionals and internet-native formats into surreal territory. It is strongest when it mimics a familiar platform convention so precisely that the format itself becomes the joke.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site was live with current content during the September 2026 check.
Domain: newsbiscuit.com · Language: English · Format: Contributor-led digital publication · Style: Reader-written satirical news · Status: Active
A long-running British community satire site built around contributor submissions and editorial selection. That open model gives it a broad range of voices and subjects, while its mock-news format makes it a useful example of how a magazine can turn readers into a writing community.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official homepage was live and publishing during the September 2026 review.
Domain: dailysquib.co.uk · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: Political and international satire · Status: Active — hybrid
A British political-satire site with a deliberately abrasive tabloid tone and a heavy interest in international affairs. It mixes parody, commentary and promotional material, so readers should treat it as a strong-viewpoint hybrid rather than a cleanly separated fictional newsroom.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site carried posts dated September 14, 2026.
Domain: thehardtimes.net · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: Music, culture and political satire · Status: Active
A US satire outlet that began with punk and alternative-music culture before broadening into politics, entertainment and everyday life. Its niche vocabulary and scene knowledge demonstrate why specialist satire often feels more authentic than general parody written from outside a community.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official homepage served current material on September 14, 2026.
Domain: hard-drive.net · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: Gaming and technology parody · Status: Active
A gaming and technology satire publication known for treating fandom disputes, platform news and industry habits with the rhythm of a games-news site. Its strongest work assumes reader fluency in the subject, making it a model for a tightly focused vertical inside a larger magazine.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official homepage was live with current satirical stories on September 14, 2026.
Domain: duffelblog.com · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: Military and Pentagon satire · Status: Active
Founded in 2012, Duffel Blog applies parody-news conventions to the US military, the Pentagon and veteran life. Much of its humor depends on insider language and institutional experience, giving it unusual credibility within a narrow and often misunderstood beat.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official homepage displayed current material during the September 2026 review.
Domain: mcsweeneys.net · Language: English · Format: Literary humor publication · Style: Essays, lists and political satire · Status: Active
The online arm of McSweeney’s has published literary comedy since the late 1990s. Rather than imitating a newspaper on every page, it specializes in comic lists, monologues, open letters and formal experiments, offering a useful counterweight to headline-only satire.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site was publishing current pieces on September 14, 2026.
Domain: thespoof.com · Language: English · Format: Contributor-led digital publication · Style: Reader-written parody news · Status: Active
A British user-generated satire site where contributors write fictional news, reviews and celebrity pieces. Its open publishing culture creates range and volume, though quality and tone vary more than at tightly edited outlets.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official homepage was live with current submissions during the September 2026 check.
Domain: suffolkgazette.com · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: Regional-news satire · Status: Active
A regional British parody site that treats Suffolk places, habits and local politics with the conventions of a county newspaper. Its success illustrates the power of geographic specificity: small details make stories more shareable among readers who recognise the setting.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official homepage served current material on September 14, 2026.
Domain: weeklyhumorist.com · Language: English · Format: Digital humor magazine · Style: Lists, essays, cartoons and topical satire · Status: Active
An American humor magazine publishing short satire, illustrated pieces, lists, fiction and cartoons. The contributor-driven format offers a wide tonal range and resembles a digital successor to general-interest print humor magazines more than a single-voice parody newsroom.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official homepage showed current 2026 publication activity.
Domain: madeupnews.co.uk · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: British mock news and topical parody · Status: Active
A compact UK mock-news publication built around topical headlines and short articles. It is useful as an example of a small independent operation that can cover national stories without the staffing or format complexity of a major magazine.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site identified itself as British satirical news and was live during the September 2026 check.
UK & Ireland additions
UK & Ireland additions
Domain: viz.co.uk · Language: English · Format: Print comic magazine and website · Style: Comics, parody adverts and vulgar social satire · Status: Active
A British comic magazine founded in 1979, famous for recurring strips, spoof advertisements, fake letters and gleefully lowbrow social observation. Its durable character universe shows how a satire title can build loyalty through familiar voices rather than daily news alone.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site offered current subscriptions and issues in 2026.
Domain: waterfordwhispersnews.com · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: Irish and international parody news · Status: Active
Ireland’s leading digital mock-news outlet pairs local cultural knowledge with international politics, sport and entertainment. Its concise, newsroom-like presentation gives absurd premises enough realism to land quickly, while Irish idiom keeps the voice distinct from UK and US competitors.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The homepage carried several stories dated September 14, 2026.
Domain: thephoenix.ie · Language: English · Format: Print magazine and website · Style: Political satire, media criticism and investigations · Status: Active — hybrid
A long-running Irish political and current-affairs magazine that combines satire with media commentary and investigative reporting. Like Private Eye, it belongs in a hybrid category: jokes, cartoons and gossip sit beside material intended as factual journalism.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site promoted a current 2026 issue during verification.
Domain: thelemonpress.co.uk · Language: English · Format: Student print and digital magazine · Style: Campus and national satire · Status: Active — student
The University of York’s student-run satire magazine has operated since 2009 and publishes print issues alongside web, radio and video work. It is a strong example of a campus publication using institutional in-jokes as training for wider political and cultural comedy.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The site advertised Issue LXVII and states that four issues are published each year.
Domain: cheesegratermagazine.org · Language: English · Format: Student magazine section · Style: Campus satire and graphics · Status: Active — student
UCL’s Cheese Grater mixes student journalism with a clearly labelled humor, satire and graphics section. Its 2026 output targets university management, elections and student life, demonstrating how editorial labelling can keep factual reporting and invented pieces under one brand.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The section carried satire dated through June 14, 2026.
Domain: theseagulltimes.co.uk · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: Eastbourne and East Sussex local satire · Status: Active
A local parody newspaper built around Eastbourne and East Sussex, using councils, seafront life, traffic and gulls as recurring material. Its narrow geography is a strength: readers can recognise the civic-news template and the local frustrations being exaggerated.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The homepage displayed articles dated through September 1, 2026.
Domain: newsishy.com · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: General spoof news · Status: Active
An independent British spoof-news site covering politics, business, health, science and everyday absurdity. Its conventional category structure makes it resemble a small general-news portal, while the invented premises keep its purpose clearly comic.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site carried a run of posts through May 30, 2026.
Domain: b3ta.com · Language: English · Format: Online community · Style: Image challenges, memes and collaborative web humor · Status: Active — community
A veteran British web-humor community best known for image challenges, newsletters and collaborative jokes. It is not a parody newspaper, but it belongs in a global satire map because it demonstrates how participatory culture can generate visual satire outside a formal newsroom.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The community homepage, newsletter and challenge infrastructure were live in the September 2026 check.
Domain: theoxymoron.co.uk · Language: English · Format: Student magazine · Style: Oxford student satire · Status: Active — student
An Oxford student satire publication aimed at campus institutions, student politics and broader culture. Its value is less raw volume than the continuity of the British university-magazine tradition, where parody, cartoons and contrarian essays share the same pages.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official publication site remained live and maintained in 2026; direct automated extraction was unavailable.
Domain: thebuglepodcast.com · Language: English · Format: Podcast and live show · Style: International political audio satire · Status: Active — audio
A long-running satirical-news podcast associated with Andy Zaltzman and a rotating international cast. Its audio-first format allows extended riffs and recurring segments, making it an important reminder that a modern satire magazine can be a feed as much as a website.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official show site and current podcast distribution were active in 2026.
North America additions
North America additions
Domain: humortimes.com · Language: English · Format: Print and digital magazine · Style: Political cartoons and current-affairs humor · Status: Active
A US political-humor magazine centered on cartoons, parody covers and topical comedy. Its aggregation of visual work from multiple cartoonists makes it useful for readers who prefer a magazine-like survey of the news cycle over one continuous editorial voice.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site and 2026 copyright were current at verification.
Domain: pointsincase.com · Language: English · Format: Digital humor magazine · Style: Literary humor and satire · Status: Active
A contributor-led humor publication founded in 1999, with lists, sketches, essays and character pieces rather than a single mock-news formula. It is particularly useful for studying premise clarity and short-form comic writing across many voices.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The site published new pieces through September 4, 2026.
Domain: weeklyworldnews.com · Language: English · Format: Digital tabloid · Style: Absurd tabloid fiction and pop-culture satire · Status: Active — hybrid
The digital continuation of the supermarket tabloid associated with Bat Boy, aliens and impossible scandals. Its relationship to satire is deliberately messy: it performs sensationalism so completely that readers should treat it as fictional entertainment with a tabloid heritage, not ordinary news parody.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The site carried 2026 posts and maintained its current publishing archive.
Domain: improbable.com · Language: English · Format: Magazine, blog and events · Style: Science humor and the Ig Nobel Prizes · Status: Active — hybrid
Home of the Annals of Improbable Research and the Ig Nobel Prizes, this project finds comedy in real, strange scholarship. It is a hybrid rather than fabricated news: the subjects are often genuine, while the framing invites readers to laugh and then think.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The site announced the 2026 Ig Nobel winners on September 3, 2026.
Domain: yalerecord.org · Language: English · Format: Student humor magazine · Style: Campus, literary and political humor · Status: Active — student
Founded in 1872, The Yale Record is one of America’s oldest college humor magazines. Its long archive and changing student voices show how institutional parody can survive by refreshing formats while retaining the identity of a print-style magazine.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site carried 2026 material and maintained current editorial pages.
Domain: stanfordchaparral.com · Language: English · Format: Student humor magazine · Style: Campus and cultural satire · Status: Active — student
Stanford’s student humor magazine has a tradition reaching back to the nineteenth century. Its work ranges from campus parody to broader cultural comedy, offering a West Coast counterpart to older East Coast college titles.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official magazine site and current issue archive were maintained in the 2025–26 academic cycle.
Domain: pennpunchbowl.com · Language: English · Format: Student humor magazine · Style: Campus satire and comic writing · Status: Active — student
The University of Pennsylvania’s student humor magazine uses print issues, web pieces and contributor recruitment to sustain a campus comedy community. Its enduring brand illustrates how a publication can function both as a magazine and as a training ground for writers.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site and submission infrastructure were live during the 2026 review.
Domain: everythreeweekly.com · Language: English · Format: Student satirical newspaper · Style: University and national mock news · Status: Active — student
A University of Michigan satirical newspaper whose title itself parodies publication frequency. It combines campus-specific stories with national premises, making the contrast between institutional detail and broader political parody part of its appeal.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The University of Michigan publication site was live and maintained in the 2025–26 cycle.
Domain: thedailyer.com · Language: English · Format: Student satirical newspaper · Style: University of Nebraska campus satire · Status: Active — student
A University of Nebraska–Lincoln student satire outlet that mimics the structures of campus and local news. Its tight institutional focus gives writers a recognisable cast of administrators, traditions and student problems to revisit.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official student publication site and current sections were live in 2026.
Domain: theneedling.com · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: Seattle and Pacific Northwest parody news · Status: Active
Seattle’s local parody-news outlet targets transit, housing, technology, weather and the habits of the Pacific Northwest. It shows how a city-focused satire brand can build authority by knowing the mundane details that national outlets overlook.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site, workshops and publication pages were maintained during the 2026 review.
Domain: robotbutt.com · Language: English · Format: Digital humor magazine · Style: Satire, fiction, cartoons and pop culture · Status: Active
A wide-ranging online comedy magazine spanning fake news, essays, history jokes, science, entertainment and cartoons. Its many recurring formats make it closer to a general humor magazine than a single-purpose satire desk.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The homepage published new work through September 14, 2026.
Domain: thebelladonnacomedy.com · Language: English · Format: Digital humor publication · Style: Satire by women and marginalized genders · Status: Active
A humor publication created to foreground writers who have historically been underrepresented in comedy. It publishes lists, essays, parody and themed calls, pairing an inclusive editorial mission with practical opportunities for contributors.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The publication and newsletter remained active on Medium in 2026.
Domain: harvardlampoon.com · Language: English · Format: Student print and digital magazine · Style: Parody, fiction and cultural satire · Status: Active — student
Founded in 1876, the Harvard Lampoon is a major American college-humor institution with a strong tradition of magazine and book parodies. Its brand depends on highly produced issues and an alumni network as much as continuous web publishing.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site promoted current parodies and the Spring 2026 issue cycle.
Domain: thebeaverton.com · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: Canadian national and local parody news · Status: Active
Canada’s best-known mock-news site covers federal politics, provinces, cities, culture and sport with a clean newsroom presentation. Its regional categories help it balance a national identity with jokes that reward local knowledge.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The homepage showed articles published within hours and days of the September 14, 2026 check.
Domain: ungerreview.com · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: Mennonite, Manitoba and Canadian satire · Status: Active
Andrew Unger’s publication grew from the Daily Bonnet’s Mennonite satire into a wider Canadian humor site. It is distinctive because community knowledge is the foundation rather than decoration, even when the subject expands to national politics or sport.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site published through September 13, 2026.
Domain: walkingeaglenews.com · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: Indigenous-focused satire · Status: Active — intermittent
An Indigenous-led satire outlet that reverses familiar media frames and exposes stereotypes, colonial policy and performative reconciliation. Its point of view is central to the work, making it more than a general fake-news site with Indigenous subjects added.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site remained live with topical Indigenous satire; publishing cadence appeared irregular during the review.
Domain: themanatee.net · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: New Brunswick local satire · Status: Active
A New Brunswick satire outlet using the language of local news to cover provincial politics, small-city life and regional anxieties. Its deep archive and place-specific jokes make it a useful model for sustainable local comedy publishing.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The site published new stories through September 9, 2026.
Domain: crankycartoons.com · Language: English · Format: Cartoon website · Style: Political cartoons and anti-disinformation commentary · Status: Active — visual
A Canadian editorial-cartoon platform built around visual political criticism. It broadens this directory beyond prose parody and shows how a single image can provide a faster, more shareable argument than an invented article.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official gallery and current social links were maintained in 2026.
Domain: sicamouslocalnews.ca · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: British Columbia local satire · Status: Active
A hyperlocal British Columbia satire project covering Sicamous, Malakwa, Enderby and nearby communities. Its blend of invented civic stories, interviews and regional references demonstrates how small-town satire can serve readers ignored by metropolitan humor sites.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The site published repeatedly through September 9, 2026.
Domain: frankmag.ca · Language: English · Format: Digital and subscription magazine · Style: Media gossip, investigations and satire · Status: Active — hybrid
A Canadian publication with a tabloid mixture of political gossip, media criticism, factual claims and comic provocation. Because satire and reporting intermingle, it should be read as a hybrid magazine rather than a source of uniformly fictional articles.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site carried articles through September 4, 2026.
Continental Europe
Continental Europe
Domain: legorafi.fr · Language: French · Format: Digital publication · Style: French parody news · Status: Active
France’s most prominent online parody-news brand uses the structure and tone of a mainstream news portal to deliver social, political and cultural jokes. Its large archive and magazine extensions show how a digital satire identity can expand beyond individual viral headlines.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The homepage carried articles and a horoscope dated September 14, 2026.
Domain: lecanardenchaine.fr · Language: French · Format: Print weekly and website · Style: Investigations, political satire and cartoons · Status: Active — hybrid
Published since 1915, Le Canard enchaîné is a central institution of French satirical journalism. It combines wordplay, cartoons and political mockery with serious investigative reporting, making accuracy and source protection as important to its reputation as comedy.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site displayed issue 5522 dated September 9, 2026.
Domain: charliehebdo.fr · Language: French · Format: Print weekly and website · Style: Editorial cartoons and anti-clerical political satire · Status: Active
A French satirical weekly with roots in the 1960s, known internationally for confrontational cartoons and a strongly secular, anti-authoritarian tradition. Its work can be deliberately offensive, so context, local law and editorial intent matter when citing or republishing it.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official publication and subscription site remained current in 2026; automated extraction was limited.
Domain: fluideglacial.com · Language: French · Format: Comics magazine and website · Style: Comics, absurdism and social satire · Status: Active
A French monthly comics institution founded in 1975, associated with irreverent visual humor and the self-described spirit of ‘Umour.’ It provides a different model from news parody: recurring artists, strips and albums form the center of the brand.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site listed monthly issue 602 for August 2026 and current events.
Domain: nordpresse.be · Language: French · Format: Digital publication · Style: Belgian and French-language parody news · Status: Active
A Belgian French-language parody site that frequently targets politics, media narratives and online outrage. Its provocative style can travel without context on social platforms, so the publication label and original link are important whenever a headline is shared.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official homepage identified itself as parody information and served current material in September 2026.
Domain: wurst.lu · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: Expat life and Luxembourg parody news · Status: Active
Founded in 2017, the Wurst uses English-language mock news to examine expat life, bureaucracy, wealth and social etiquette in Luxembourg. Its compact national setting gives apparently small observations unusually high recognition among residents.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The homepage and new articles were indexed during the September 2026 review.
Domain: der-postillon.com · Language: German · Format: Digital publication · Style: German parody news · Status: Active
Germany’s leading online mock-news outlet presents fictional reports, ticker items and video in a polished newsroom style. Its deadpan voice and attention to German political language make it a close functional relative of The Onion without simply copying an American tone.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official homepage was live with current material on September 14, 2026.
Domain: titanic-magazin.de · Language: German · Format: Print magazine and website · Style: Political satire, cartoons and literary humor · Status: Active
A German monthly founded in 1979 by writers and artists associated with the New Frankfurt School. Titanic mixes covers, cartoons, essays and political provocation, sustaining a recognisable print-magazine sensibility online.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site promoted current 2026 magazine material.
Domain: eulenspiegel-zeitschrift.de · Language: German · Format: Print magazine and website · Style: Political cartoons and social satire · Status: Active
A long-running German satirical magazine with an East German publishing history, combining caricature, prose and political humor. Its survival across political systems gives it a distinctive archival and cultural perspective within German-language satire.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The publication and subscription site remained active in 2026; direct automated extraction was unavailable.
Domain: dietagespresse.com · Language: German · Format: Digital publication · Style: Austrian parody news · Status: Active
Austria’s best-known digital parody-news title focuses on national politics, public broadcasting, bureaucracy and European affairs. Its slogan about learning news before it happens captures the central method: plausible inventions framed with the confidence of breaking news.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official homepage served current stories during the September 14, 2026 check.
Domain: nebelspalter.ch · Language: German · Format: Magazine, video and podcast platform · Style: Political commentary, cartoons and satirical heritage · Status: Active — hybrid
Founded in 1875 as a satirical magazine, Nebelspalter is one of the oldest names in the field. Its modern site leans heavily into political commentary and talk formats, so it is best treated as a current-affairs hybrid with a major satire legacy.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official platform carried current 2026 articles, videos and shows.
Domain: vigousse.ch · Language: French · Format: Print weekly and website · Style: Francophone Swiss satire and cartoons · Status: Active
A French-language Swiss satirical weekly produced by writers and cartoonists in Romandy. It combines local political knowledge with caricature and short-form commentary, providing a counterweight to Switzerland’s larger German-language media market.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site described a weekly editorial and cartoon team and maintained current subscription operations in 2026.
Domain: speld.nl · Language: Dutch · Format: Digital publication · Style: Dutch parody news · Status: Active
The Netherlands’ most recognisable mock-news brand uses crisp, plausible headlines and newsroom conventions to satirise politics, work, sport and daily life. Its compact premise-driven stories are designed to be understood quickly in social feeds.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official brand and current publishing presence were active in 2026; direct page extraction was unavailable.
Domain: nieuwspaal.nl · Language: Dutch · Format: Digital publication · Style: Dutch topical parody news · Status: Active
A Dutch parody-news site covering national events, celebrities, society and international stories. It offers a more high-volume, headline-led counterpart to magazine-style satire and is especially useful for tracking topical Dutch-language jokes.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official homepage served current material on September 14, 2026.
Domain: elmundotoday.com · Language: Spanish · Format: Digital publication and broadcast collaborations · Style: Spanish parody news · Status: Active
Spain’s leading online parody-news publication builds stories from politics, consumer life, technology and relationships. Its polished visual identity and broadcast collaborations have helped make the fictional newsroom feel like a durable media brand rather than a one-format joke site.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official homepage displayed current material in September 2026.
Domain: eljueves.es · Language: Spanish · Format: Print weekly and website · Style: Political cartoons, comics and social satire · Status: Active
A Spanish satirical weekly founded in 1977, famous for cartoon covers, recurring comic characters and political irreverence. It represents the strong Iberian tradition of visual satire and has repeatedly tested the boundaries of speech, taste and institutional tolerance.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official magazine and subscription presence remained current in 2026.
Domain: revistamongolia.com · Language: Spanish · Format: Print magazine, website and live shows · Style: Media criticism and political satire · Status: Active — hybrid
A Spanish magazine that labels its mixture of satire and factual media criticism as ‘reality.’ It combines parody covers, long-form analysis and live performance, making the relationship between comedy and press criticism part of the publication’s identity.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site promoted current magazine, performance and subscription activity in 2026.
Domain: lercio.it · Language: Italian · Format: Digital publication · Style: Italian parody news · Status: Active
Italy’s best-known online satirical-news site takes its name from a parody of sensationalist press language. Its writers use concise invented reports to target politics, television, technology and everyday Italian culture.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official homepage was publishing current articles in September 2026.
Domain: vernacoliere.com · Language: Italian and Tuscan vernacular · Format: Print monthly and website · Style: Vernacular cartoons and political satire · Status: Active
A Livorno-based satirical monthly noted for blunt headlines, cartoons and Tuscan vernacular. Its regional voice is inseparable from its national political commentary, showing how dialect and place can become core editorial assets.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site promoted current August–September 2026 issues and material.
Domain: antena1.rtp.pt · Language: Portuguese · Format: Radio program and podcast · Style: Daily current-affairs audio satire · Status: Active — audio
A weekday Portuguese radio satire carried by public broadcaster RTP’s Antena 1. The program compresses the day’s politics and media stories into character voices and sketches, offering a broadcast model for rapid-response satire.
Activity check (2026-09-14): RTP listed episodes through July 31, 2026.
Domain: rokokoposten.dk · Language: Danish · Format: Digital publication · Style: Danish parody news · Status: Active — intermittent
A Danish fictional-news site with a dry, literate tone and an archive spanning domestic politics, culture and science. Publication is now intermittent, but the 2026 post and maintained archive keep it within the active boundary used for this edition.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The latest visible article was dated January 19, 2026; earlier output was sporadic.
Domain: toonsmag.com · Language: English and multilingual · Format: Digital cartoon magazine · Style: Editorial cartoons and international visual satire · Status: Active — visual
A Norway-based international cartoon magazine and network publishing artists from many countries. It broadens the idea of a national satire outlet by functioning as a cross-border visual platform, with exhibitions and themed cartoon projects alongside web publication.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The international cartoon platform and its current publishing presence were active in 2026; direct extraction was limited.
Domain: gronkoping.nu · Language: Swedish · Format: Print and digital publication · Style: Fictional-town news satire · Status: Active
A Swedish satirical institution built around the fictional town of Grönköping and written in deliberately old-fashioned language. Its enduring invented geography supports recurring officials, civic disputes and traditions, much like a long-running comic universe.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site published an article dated September 14, 2026.
Domain: satwcomic.com · Language: English · Format: Webcomic · Style: National stereotypes and cultural satire · Status: Active — visual
A Danish-created webcomic personifying countries and regions to joke about history, language and national stereotypes. The format is accessible internationally, though its simplifications work best when readers recognise that cultural caricature is the organising device.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site displayed a current latest comic and maintained active support and social channels in 2026.
Domain: aszdziennik.pl · Language: Polish · Format: Digital publication · Style: Polish parody news · Status: Active
A major Polish mock-news outlet whose name plays on a leading national newspaper. It uses familiar digital-news formats to satirise politics, popular culture and social behaviour, with headlines designed for rapid sharing.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official homepage served current material in September 2026.
Domain: tygodniknie.pl · Language: Polish · Format: Print weekly and website · Style: Anti-establishment political satire · Status: Active
A Polish satirical weekly known for aggressively anti-clerical, anti-establishment commentary and caricature. Its ideological posture is explicit, so it is valuable as viewpoint satire rather than a broad consensus humor title.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official weekly and subscription presence remained current in 2026; direct automated extraction was unavailable.
Domain: timesnewroman.ro · Language: Romanian · Format: Digital publication · Style: Romanian parody news · Status: Active
Romania’s best-known satirical-news site uses invented reporting, lists and recurring national references. Academic research has also used Romanian satire corpora that include the site, reflecting its prominence in the country’s digital satire ecosystem.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official homepage carried current 2026 material during verification.
Domain: starshel.bg · Language: Bulgarian · Format: Print newspaper and website · Style: Humor, caricature and literary satire · Status: Active
A Bulgarian humor and satire newspaper with a history extending across decades, publishing prose, verse and cartoons. Its literary range distinguishes it from sites built almost entirely around fabricated news briefs.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official newspaper site displayed current September 2026 content.
Domain: njuz.net · Language: Serbian · Format: Digital publication · Style: Serbian parody news · Status: Active — intermittent
A Serbian satirical-news site using mock reporting to target politics, nationalism, media and daily life. Its recent cadence is intermittent, so readers should value the archive and local influence more than expect daily updates.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The latest visible site material was dated July 4, 2025; the maintained publication remained within the 18-month activity window.
Domain: zaytung.com · Language: Turkish · Format: Digital publication · Style: Turkish parody news · Status: Active
Turkey’s leading online parody-news brand covers domestic politics, economics, sport and culture through fictional reports and short items. In a restrictive media environment, its indirect comic framing can carry political criticism that would read differently as straight commentary.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official publication had current 2026 activity; direct automated extraction was unavailable.
Domain: iohlas.cz · Language: Czech · Format: Digital publication · Style: Czech political parody news · Status: Active
A Czech satirical daily whose name riffs on public-radio branding and the language of online news. It publishes concise political and social mock reports, making it a useful current example from a market often missing in English-language lists.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site carried posts in July, August and September 2026.
Domain: denik.to · Language: Czech · Format: Digital magazine, video and podcasts · Style: Commentary, humor and satire · Status: Active — hybrid
A Czech current-affairs platform explicitly combining commentary, analysis, podcasts, video, humor and satire. Because factual opinion and comic work share the brand, individual items need to be identified by format rather than assuming the whole site is fictional.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site displayed current 2026 articles, podcasts and videos.
Domain: sibulaleht.ee · Language: Estonian and English · Format: Digital publication · Style: Estonian parody news · Status: Active — emerging
An emerging Estonian satire site covering local politics, society and international stories. Its bilingual reach and very recent output make it useful for discovery, but its young track record means the editorial identity is still developing.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The site carried current 2026 material and identified itself as satirical news.
Domain: luben.tv · Language: Greek · Format: Digital video and culture platform · Style: Political clips, remix culture and social satire · Status: Active — hybrid
A Greek internet-media brand built around satirical clips, remixes, memes and commentary on politics and popular culture. It is a hybrid platform rather than a fictional newspaper, with much of its comedy created through selection, editing and juxtaposition of real footage.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site carried current material through August 2026.
Domain: panorama.pub · Language: Russian · Format: Digital publication · Style: Russian parody news · Status: Active
A Russian fictional-news agency that publishes plausible political, historical and international stories in formal wire-service language. Its headlines are frequently detached from their satire label in social circulation, so original-source linking is particularly important.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official homepage served current stories in September 2026.
Latin America & Caribbean
Latin America & Caribbean
Domain: elchiguirebipolar.net · Language: Spanish · Format: Digital publication · Style: Venezuelan political parody news · Status: Active
One of Latin America's best-known satirical-news publications, El Chigüire Bipolar uses fabricated reports to critique Venezuelan politics, shortages, bureaucracy and media life. Its name refers to the capybara, and its local specificity has not prevented the site from building a wider Spanish-speaking audience.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official homepage published current material on September 14, 2026.
Domain: actualidadpanamericana.com · Language: Spanish · Format: Digital publication · Style: Colombian and regional parody news · Status: Active — intermittent
A Colombian parody-news site with a polished newswire aesthetic and a remit extending across Latin America. Its plausible headlines regularly escape their original context, illustrating both the reach of concise satire and the importance of preserving visible satire labels when stories are shared.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The latest visible article was dated September 23, 2025; the maintained site remained within the 18-month activity window.
Domain: eldeforma.com · Language: Spanish · Format: Digital publication · Style: Mexican current-affairs and pop-culture parody · Status: Active
A large Mexican satire and entertainment site using mock reports, memes and pop-culture framing. It combines politics with sport, celebrity and internet trends, favouring quick topical recognition over the longer institutional narratives common to print satirical magazines.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official homepage published current material on September 14, 2026.
Domain: piaui.folha.uol.com.br · Language: Portuguese · Format: Satirical section of a magazine · Style: Brazilian political parody news · Status: Active
The satirical-news section of Brazil's Piauí magazine borrows the language of serious political journalism and turns it toward absurd fictional developments. Its placement inside a respected long-form publication gives the jokes a productive tension with the surrounding reporting and essays.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official Piauí site carried Herald material dated September 11, 2026.
Domain: oralho.com · Language: Portuguese · Format: Digital publication · Style: Political cartoons, commentary and humor · Status: Active — hybrid
A Brazilian humor site produced by a group of digital artists who use politics as their principal material. Cartoons, commentary and comic framing share the publication, so it is best read as a satirical magazine rather than as a single-purpose fictional news service.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site carried current material through July 27, 2026.
Domain: bocasanta.com.br · Language: Portuguese · Format: Regional digital publication · Style: Local-news humor and political satire · Status: Active
A long-running regional publication from Campo Mourão in Paraná, combining local information with jokes, cartoons and political commentary. Its hyperlocal focus shows how satire can work as civic conversation rather than merely as national headline parody.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site displayed daily material dated September 14, 2026.
Domain: bulunga.com.br · Language: Portuguese · Format: Digital humor publication · Style: Northeastern Brazilian culture and satire · Status: Active
A Brazilian humor and culture outlet rooted in the Northeast, publishing satirical takes on regional identity, politics and everyday life. Its vocabulary and references reward local knowledge and add geographic variety to a web landscape often dominated by Rio and São Paulo.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official publication carried current material through August 2026.
Domain: garimpo.com.br · Language: Portuguese · Format: Digital humor publication · Style: Cartoons, humor and cultural satire · Status: Active
A Brazilian humor publication blending cartoons, comic writing and cultural commentary. Its mixed-media archive makes it more magazine-like than a rapid mock-news feed and gives visual artists a central role in the editorial voice.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site published material dated July 1, 2026.
Domain: revistabarcelona.com.ar · Language: Spanish · Format: Print magazine and digital archive · Style: Argentine media and political satire · Status: Active
An Argentine satirical magazine founded during the country's 2001–02 crisis and known for dense parody covers modelled on newspapers and news magazines. Its recurring slogan about being a European solution to Argentine problems signals a confrontational, self-aware approach to media and national identity.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site maintained a current 2026 digital library, subscriptions and publishing operation.
Domain: elcascotenews.com · Language: Spanish · Format: Digital publication · Style: Uruguayan parody news · Status: Active
A Uruguayan satire outlet presenting invented local and regional stories in familiar news formats. Its compact articles and recognisable Montevideo references make it a useful example of small-market satire sustaining a distinct voice beside larger Argentine and Mexican brands.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site published current material on September 10, 2026.
Domain: elmercio.pe · Language: Spanish · Format: Digital publication · Style: Peruvian political and social parody · Status: Active
A Peruvian parody-news site whose name riffs on the major newspaper El Comercio. It applies mock reporting to national politics, public institutions and social habits; the deliberately similar branding makes the satirical context especially important when individual headlines travel.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site published current material through August 19, 2026.
Domain: eldestiempo.com · Language: Spanish · Format: Digital publication · Style: Colombian parody news and humor · Status: Active
A Colombian comic-news brand whose title parodies the name of a national daily. It publishes invented headlines, topical jokes and entertainment material, using the look and rhythm of mainstream digital news as part of the satire.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official homepage carried current material on September 14, 2026.
Domain: portadosfundos.com.br · Language: Portuguese · Format: Video studio and web platform · Style: Sketch comedy and institutional satire · Status: Active — video
A Brazilian comedy collective and production company best known for online sketches that satirise religion, politics, work, relationships and social convention. It is not a parody newspaper, but its scale and sustained topical work make it essential to a worldwide account of digital satire.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official studio and its 2026 series output were active during verification.
Africa & Middle East
Africa & Middle East
Domain: alhudood.net · Language: Arabic and English · Format: Digital publication · Style: Pan-Arab political parody news · Status: Active
A Jordan-founded pan-Arab satirical-news publication whose Arabic name means ‘the limits’ or ‘the borders.’ It uses an invented newsroom to address authoritarianism, conflict and social policy across the region, and its English edition extends selected work to international readers.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site published current material on September 14, 2026.
Domain: punocracy.com · Language: English · Format: Digital humor publication · Style: Nigerian parody, essays and social satire · Status: Active
A Nigerian humor platform combining satirical news, essays, lists and cultural commentary. Its writers use local speech, politics and youth culture to produce a perspective that differs substantially from imported Onion-style imitation.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site published current material on September 12, 2026.
Domain: bustop.tv · Language: English and Shona · Format: Video comedy collective · Style: Street theater and political satire · Status: Active — video
A Zimbabwean comedy collective known for short street-theatre videos and sketches about politics, public services and daily survival. Its bilingual, performance-led work reaches audiences through video and social distribution rather than a conventional magazine homepage.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official platform and current publishing channels were maintained in 2026.
Domain: zimdaily.com · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: Zimbabwean political parody news · Status: Active
A Zimbabwe-focused digital satire site presenting political and social stories in fictional-news form. It offers a text-based complement to the country's strong video-comedy culture, though readers should use the original domain because isolated headlines can resemble real political reporting.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official homepage published current material on September 13, 2026.
Domain: dailymaverick.co.za · Language: English · Format: Editorial-cartoon section · Style: South African political cartoons · Status: Active — visual
The editorial-cartoon desk of South African news publication Daily Maverick brings together topical visual commentary on national politics and global affairs. It is a section rather than a standalone satire brand, but it provides a dependable gateway to contemporary South African cartooning.
Activity check (2026-09-14): Daily Maverick's official cartoon section carried current work in September 2026.
Domain: brandanreynolds.com · Language: English · Format: Editorial-cartoon site · Style: South African politics and current affairs · Status: Active — visual
A South African editorial cartoonist publishing a near-daily stream of concise political images. The archive demonstrates how a single creator can operate like a specialist publication, responding rapidly to elections, governance, diplomacy and media narratives.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site displayed frequently updated cartoons in September 2026.
Domain: politicallyaweh.co.za · Language: English · Format: Digital humor publication · Style: South African political and social satire · Status: Active
A South African digital satire outlet whose name draws on local slang. It covers politicians, public institutions and social life with memes and written parody, using a casual voice to make national politics accessible without pretending to be a neutral newsroom.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site published current material on September 10, 2026.
Domain: lecanardlibere.net · Language: French · Format: Print weekly and website · Style: Moroccan political satire and cartoons · Status: Active
A Moroccan French-language satirical weekly combining caricature, political commentary and magazine reporting. Its print identity and local focus add an important Maghreb perspective to a directory otherwise weighted toward digital parody news.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site promoted an issue dated September 3, 2026.
Domain: preoccupiedterritory.com · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: Israeli-Palestinian political parody news · Status: Active
An English-language parody-news site focused on Israel, Palestinians and the wider Middle East. Its jokes often depend on close knowledge of religion, security and diplomacy; given the subject matter, clear labelling and careful contextual reading are particularly important.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site carried current material through August 30, 2026.
Domain: mako.co.il · Language: Hebrew · Format: Television program and clips · Style: Political sketch comedy and impersonation · Status: Active — television
Israel's major prime-time political satire program, built around sketches, impersonations and ensemble characters. Its television scale gives it agenda-setting reach beyond specialist satire audiences, while its topicality means individual segments are closely tied to the week's political context.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official program page documented season 23 material through April 22, 2026.
Asia & Oceania
Asia & Oceania
Domain: betootaadvocate.com · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: Australian politics, sport and culture parody · Status: Active
Australia's most prominent fictional newspaper presents itself as the paper of a small Queensland town while covering national politics, sport, work and popular culture. Its regional voice, recurring archetypes and strong merchandising show how an invented local identity can grow into a national brand.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official homepage displayed current 2026 material during verification.
Domain: theshovel.com.au · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: Australian political parody news · Status: Active
An Australian satirical-news site specialising in concise political premises and fast responses to national events. The writing usually foregrounds the headline idea, making it a useful model for economy and shareability in daily satire.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official homepage carried current material in September 2026.
Domain: chaser.com.au · Language: English · Format: Digital publication and production brand · Style: Politics, culture and media stunts · Status: Active — hybrid
A long-running Australian comedy brand that began as a satirical newspaper and expanded into television, radio, podcasts, live work and digital publishing. Its history of public stunts and institutional parody gives it a broader repertoire than a conventional mock-news site.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site carried current material in September 2026.
Domain: thejuicemedia.com · Language: English · Format: Video channel and website · Style: Political advertising parody · Status: Active — video
An Australian video project best known for ‘Honest Government Ads,’ which mimic official public-information campaigns to criticise policy and political language. The consistent format turns bureaucratic branding itself into the target and supports international editions and collaborations.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official publication released current material through August 11, 2026.
Domain: thebelltowertimes.com · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: Perth life and Western Australian satire · Status: Active
A Perth-focused satire and humor site built around local suburbs, habits, workplaces and social types. Its success rests on extremely specific observation, showing the editorial advantage a regional magazine can gain by writing for insiders first.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site published current material on September 7, 2026.
Domain: pavlovapost.co.nz · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: New Zealand parody news · Status: Active
A New Zealand satirical-news site covering national politics, culture and daily life. Its title uses a famously contested trans-Tasman dessert as an immediate national joke, while its stories adopt the concise structure of online news.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site published current material on September 11, 2026.
Domain: pnherald.co.nz · Language: English · Format: Regional digital publication · Style: Palmerston North and New Zealand satire · Status: Active
A fictional regional paper centred on Palmerston North, using local institutions, geography and civic rivalries as recurring material. Like the Betoota model on a smaller scale, it turns a specific place into a stable comic world.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site published current material on July 29, 2026.
Domain: whakatakitimes.nz · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: New Zealand politics and culture parody · Status: Active
A New Zealand mock-news outlet mixing national politics with rural and small-town framing. Its fictional masthead and local idiom provide a recognisable home for stories that might otherwise read as generic international headline satire.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site published current material on September 14, 2026.
Domain: dunedinherald.com · Language: English · Format: Regional digital publication · Style: Dunedin and national parody news · Status: Active
A Dunedin-based parody publication using a regional-newspaper voice to cover student life, civic politics and national issues. It is strongest when the joke relies on southern New Zealand identity rather than simply reskinning a global premise.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site showed current September 2026 material during verification.
Domain: kyoko-np.net · Language: Japanese · Format: Digital publication · Style: Japanese fictional news · Status: Active
A Japanese satirical newspaper whose name can be read as ‘fictional news.’ It presents absurd stories in sober newspaper style and maintains a clear fictional premise, offering an important non-Western example of the deadpan parody-news form.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site maintained a current publishing presence in 2026, although the extracted homepage did not expose reliable article dates.
Domain: thefauxy.com · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: Indian politics, business and culture parody · Status: Active
An Indian satire site covering politics, startups, technology, education and urban culture. Its English-language format makes it accessible beyond India, while its jokes frequently rely on local institutions and the distinctive language of the country's business and news media.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site published current material through July 18, 2026.
Domain: earki.co.in · Language: English and Hindi · Format: Digital humor publication and creative brand · Style: Indian social and political satire · Status: Active — hybrid
An Indian humor and satire brand publishing topical pieces, cartoons and design-led work in English and Hindi. Its mixture of editorial material and creative merchandise makes it a hybrid magazine-business rather than a pure news parody operation.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site maintained current sections and a 2026 publishing and merchandise presence.
Domain: catchpennytimes.com · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: Asian current-affairs parody news · Status: Active — emerging
A recently established English-language satire site taking a pan-Asian view of politics, business and culture. Its cross-border ambition fills a real directory gap, but the short operating history means its cadence and editorial identity should be reassessed in future editions.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site published current material through August 31, 2026.
Domain: manilanews.ph · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: Philippine parody news · Status: Active — emerging
An emerging Philippine mock-news outlet covering politics, city life and popular culture. It adds a dedicated local parody voice to a market where political humor often circulates primarily through social media, though its newness warrants a future editorial and continuity check.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site published current material on September 14, 2026.
Domain: mojok.co · Language: Indonesian · Format: Digital magazine · Style: Essays, humor and cultural satire · Status: Active — hybrid
An Indonesian digital magazine mixing humorous essays, opinion, youth culture and social criticism. It is not a fictional-news site; its relevance lies in a conversational, locally grounded style that makes satire part of a broader editorial magazine.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site carried current 2026 material during verification.
Domain: singaporeslurp.com · Language: English · Format: Digital publication · Style: Singaporean social and political parody · Status: Active — emerging
A young Singapore-focused satire site using fabricated reports and comic commentary on local policy, cost of living and social habits. Its emerging status means the archive is still modest, but the focused national voice fills a notable geographic gap.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official site published current material through June 17, 2026.
Domain: salient.org.nz · Language: English · Format: Student-magazine section · Style: Campus, politics and youth satire · Status: Active
The satire section of Victoria University of Wellington's student magazine, Salient, publishes campus jokes alongside national political pieces. It demonstrates the enduring role of student press as a training ground for distinctive, risk-taking comic voices.
Activity check (2026-09-14): The official Salient satire section carried current 2026 material.
Editorial, linking and SEO note
Editorial, linking and SEO note
The links in this directory are citations and discovery paths, not a link-exchange scheme. For a satire magazine, the useful model is editorial: quote or discuss another publication when it genuinely helps the reader, identify the source, and link to the most relevant original page. A copied list of domains creates little value by itself; original analysis, clear authorship, strong internal linking and consistently useful articles are what make the directory worth indexing. No individual outbound or inbound link guarantees Google indexing, rankings or transferable authority.
If this directory is published on a live site, retain the status labels and verification date, add a visible satire/editorial policy, and schedule periodic checks for redirects, expired domains and dormant outlets. That maintenance is part of the article's value.
Sources and further reading
Sources and further reading
Official outlet pages are linked in every profile and were the primary source for identity and activity checks. The following sources supplied additional discovery, historical and regional context:
List of satirical news websites — Wikipedia. A broad discovery index and a useful explanation of the distinction between labelled satire and deceptive fake news.
List of satirical magazines — Wikipedia. A discovery index for print and magazine traditions that are easy to miss in web-only lists.
Onion-style Arabic satirical news website launches English edition — The Guardian. Background on Al Hudood and political satire across the Arab world.
No person or topic is safe from the gaze of Latin America's satirical news publications — LatAm Journalism Review, Knight Center. Regional context for Latin American parody-news publishers.
Satirical websites branded legitimate news sources — ABC News Australia. Reporting on the recurring problem of satire being stripped of context when shared.
Satirical sites carve out distinct beats — The Washington Post. Background on specialist US publications including Reductress and The Hard Times.
European satire and the fake-news boundary — El País. Context on European parody outlets and how readers interpret fictional headlines.
Ro-Satire: A Romanian Corpus for Satire and Fake News Detection — arXiv. Research context for Romanian satire and machine classification.
Shivs and Vultures — Review of Journalism. Recent Canadian context on satire, editorial cartoons and journalistic culture.
ZAM Magazine — ZAM. A discovery source for African political art, cartoons and visual storytelling.
Cartoons — Daily Maverick. Primary index for current South African editorial cartoons.
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