The City of Burnie is a local government area on the north west Tasmanian coast centred around its namesake city.

Burnie’s major news producer is The Advocate, a daily newspaper founded in 1890 and published by Australian Community Media. In recent years News Corp has also launched a small digital presence, the North West Coast News, as an extension of the Mercury covering the broader region. ABC Northern Tasmania is based in Launceston. Australian Radio Network operates two stations in the town: 7BU 100.9FM and Sea FM 101.7 Burnie, and Coast FM 7DBS is a community radio station in nearby Wynyard. All of Tasmania is covered by a single television license area, Tasmania TV1, since the market was aggregated in 1994. Each of the three commercial stations – Seven, Ten and WIN – are based in Hobart and produce a small amount of news coverage alongside rebroadcasts from Melbourne.