The Inner West is a region of Sydney. It consists of four local government areas – Burwood, Canada Bay, Inner West and Strathfield – as well as the north-east of the City of Canterbury-Bankstown.

Being a large region of metropolitan Sydney, the inner west is well covered by multiple news outlets of all scales and formats. Both the Daily Telegraph and Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) serve the area, as do News Corp’s local titles the Inner West Courier and Canterbury-Bankstown Express. Both of these were in print prior to COVID-19 and are now provided digitally.

Independent outlets in the region include The Torch, a Canterbury- Bankstown-based newspaper operated by Torch Publishing. Torch also previously published the Inner West Times, which was closed in 2020. The Inner West Independent, an offshoot of CityHub Sydney, also operates at a small scale. Australian Community Media was briefly present, launching the Inner West Review in February 2022, before closing it in July of the same year.

The region has a heavy radio presence, with major brands including Southern Cross Austereo-owned Triple M Sydney and 2DayFM, part of the Hit Network. Australian Radio Network also operates KIIS 1065 Sydney, and Nine Entertainment operates 2GB. Independent and community radio outlets include Radio Skid Row, Radio 2RDJ and 2SM. Each of the three major commercial television networks has a Sydney-based newsroom and produces local news from the inner west and across the wider metropolitan area.