Hearst
Hearst is a privately held, diversified American media, information, and services conglomerate headquartered in the Hearst Tower in New York City. Founded in 1887 by William Randolph Hearst, the company spans more than 360 businesses across magazines, newspapers, broadcast television, cable networks, business and financial information, healthcare information, automotive data, and venture investments. Hearst reported approximately US$13B in revenue (2024) with ~22,000 employees worldwide.
Hearst is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Media, Publishing, Broadcasting, Magazines, and Newspapers.
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generated: '2026-07-22'
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description: Hearst is a privately held, diversified American media, information, and services conglomerate headquartered
in the Hearst Tower in New York City. Founded in 1887 by William Randolph Hearst, the company spans more than 360 businesses
across magazines, newspapers, broadcast television, cable networks, business and financial information, healthcare information,
automotive data, and venture investments. Hearst reported approximately US$13B in revenue (2024) with ~22,000 employees
worldwide.
tags:
- Media
- Publishing
- Broadcasting
- Magazines
- Newspapers
- Television
- Cable Networks
- Healthcare Information
- Financial Information
- Automotive Data
- Syndication
- Conglomerate
- Private
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
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common:
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/hearst-corporation-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
url: https://www.hearst.com/
- type: About
url: https://www.hearst.com/about
- type: Newsroom
url: https://www.hearst.com/newsroom
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hearst
- type: Wikipedia
url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearst_Communications
x-portfolio:
description: Hearst is a holding company with 360+ operating businesses across six primary segments. The portfolio below
enumerates the major divisions, brands, joint ventures, and subsidiaries — none of which currently expose a public developer
API at the parent level. Where individual subsidiaries do publish APIs (e.g. Fitch Ratings, First Databank, MOTOR, Bring
a Trailer), they are or will be profiled in their own api-evangelist repos.
segments:
- id: hearst-magazines
name: Hearst Magazines
description: 300+ magazine titles published in the United States and internationally, plus their digital extensions and
Hearst Magazines Media Group's ad/data businesses.
url: https://www.hearstmags.com/
brands:
- Cosmopolitan
- Esquire
- Elle
- Elle Decor
- Harper's Bazaar
- Good Housekeeping
- Town & Country
- House Beautiful
- Veranda
- Country Living
- Country Living UK
- Delish
- The Pioneer Woman Magazine
- Oprah Daily
- Food Network Magazine
- HGTV Magazine
- Men's Health
- Women's Health
- Prevention
- Runner's World
- Bicycling
- Popular Mechanics
- Car and Driver
- Road & Track
- Seventeen
- Redbook
- Woman's Day
- Inside Soap
- San Antonio Magazine
- id: hearst-newspapers
name: Hearst Newspapers
description: 19 daily and 61+ weekly newspapers across the United States, plus related local digital properties. Operates
a shared newsroom and platform organization (Hearst DevHub, Hearst Newspapers Production).
url: https://www.hearst.com/newspapers
brands:
- Houston Chronicle
- San Francisco Chronicle
- SFGATE
- San Antonio Express-News
- Times Union (Albany)
- Connecticut Post
- Greenwich Time
- Stamford Advocate
- The News-Times (Danbury)
- The Hour (Norwalk)
- The New Haven Register
- The Middletown Press
- The Register Citizen
- Journal Inquirer
- Beaumont Enterprise
- Laredo Morning Times
- Plainview Daily Herald
- Midland Reporter-Telegram
- Edwardsville Intelligencer
- The Telegraph (Alton, IL)
- Journal-Courier (Jacksonville, IL)
- Huron Daily Tribune
- Manistee News Advocate
- Midland Daily News (MI)
- The Pioneer (Big Rapids)
- Seattle PI (seattlepi.com)
- id: hearst-television
name: Hearst Television
description: Operates 32+ local broadcast television stations across U.S. markets, affiliated with ABC, NBC, CBS, The
CW, MyNetworkTV, MeTV, Telemundo, Estrella TV and independents; also produces and distributes broadcast/cable programming
via Hearst Media Production Group (formerly Litton Entertainment).
url: https://www.hearst.com/television
brands:
- WBAL-TV (Baltimore, NBC)
- WCVB-TV (Boston, ABC)
- WMUR-TV (Manchester NH, ABC)
- WTAE-TV (Pittsburgh, ABC)
- WGAL (Lancaster/Harrisburg, NBC)
- KMBC-TV (Kansas City, ABC)
- KCCI (Des Moines, CBS)
- KETV (Omaha, ABC)
- WLWT (Cincinnati, NBC)
- WYFF (Greenville SC, NBC)
- WISN-TV (Milwaukee, ABC)
- WPBF (West Palm Beach, ABC)
- WESH (Orlando, NBC)
- KOAT-TV (Albuquerque, ABC)
- KOCO-TV (Oklahoma City, ABC)
- WLKY (Louisville, CBS)
- KSBW (Salinas/Monterey, NBC)
- Hearst Media Production Group
- id: cable-and-streaming
name: Cable Networks & Streaming (Joint Ventures)
description: Equity stakes in some of the most-watched U.S. cable and sports networks, held jointly with The Walt Disney
Company and others.
brands:
- A+E Global Media (50% with Disney) — A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime, LMN, FYI, History en Español, The HISTORY Channel app
- ESPN, LLC (20% stake; Disney owns 80%) — ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN Deportes, ESPN+, ESPN Radio
- Vice Media (debt/equity exposure via A+E investments, historical)
- VICE TV
- id: hearst-health
name: Hearst Health
description: Healthcare information and clinical decision-support businesses whose data and software reach a large share
of U.S. discharged patients, prescriptions, payer claims, and home-health visits.
url: https://www.hearst.com/hearst-health
brands:
- First Databank (FDB) — drug knowledge & clinical decision support
- MCG Health — care guidelines and utilization management
- Zynx Health — evidence-based order sets and care plans
- Homecare Homebase — home health & hospice software
- QGenda — healthcare workforce management
- MHK (formerly MedHOK) — payer care management
- Map of Medicine (legacy)
- id: hearst-business-and-financial
name: Hearst Business Media & Financial Services
description: Business-to-business information, ratings, and data subsidiaries — including the wholly owned Fitch Group
and a portfolio of automotive and transportation data brands.
brands:
- Fitch Group (100%) — Fitch Ratings, Fitch Solutions, Fitch Learning, BMI, Sustainable Fitch, dv01, CreditSights
- Black Book — automotive valuation data
- MOTOR Information Systems — automotive repair, parts, OEM data
- Noregon Systems — commercial vehicle diagnostics
- CAMP Systems International — aviation maintenance tracking
- Bring a Trailer (BaT) — enthusiast car auction marketplace
- King Features Syndicate — content syndication (comics, columns)
- CDS Global — circulation, payment & customer-service outsourcing
- iCrossing — digital marketing services
- id: digital-and-ventures
name: Hearst Digital & Ventures
description: Digital-native brands, internal platform/product groups, and Hearst's strategic venture capital arm investing
in media, marketing, data, transportation, and health technology.
brands:
- Verywell (Verywell Health, Verywell Fit, Verywell Mind, Verywell Family) — consumer health info
- Puzzmo — premium puzzle games platform
- BestProducts.com
- Hearst Autos digital network
- Hearst Ventures — corporate VC arm
- Hearst Lab — women-led startup accelerator
- HearstLive (lifestyle event activations)
x-developer-presence:
summary: Hearst Corporation has no parent-level developer portal, public API catalog, or OpenAPI program. Developer surfaces,
when they exist, sit inside operating subsidiaries (notably Fitch Group, First Databank, MOTOR, QGenda, and Bring a Trailer)
and are documented in their own api-evangelist repositories, not here. There is no official Hearst Corporation GitHub
organization publishing SDKs, CLIs, or sample code; third-party GitHub orgs that contain the string "Hearst" are not affiliated
with Hearst Communications and were intentionally excluded.
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parentGitHub: null
maintainers:
- FN: API Evangelist
email: info@apievangelist.com
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