Newcastle's newspapers are as widely read in its Northumbrian hinterland as any of those of the wider county: the "Northumberland Gazette", "Morpeth Herald", "Berwick Advertiser", "Hexham Courant" and the "News Post Leader".
Vendar je treba poudatiti, da je bil Northumberland, podobno kot številna druga upravna območja v Angliji, odrezan od svojega geografskega regijskega centra - kraja Newcastle upon Tyne - ki pa še vedno ohranja pomembno vlogo v grofiji.