Canada

• The Hamilton Spectator, a Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, newspaper published since 1846

Colombia

• El Espectador, a daily newspaper

India

• The Spectator (Indian newspaper), an Indian newspaper

United Kingdom

• The Spectator, a British weekly current affairs magazine
• The Spectator (1711), a British publication between 1711 and 1712

United States

• The American Spectator, a conservative political magazine
• American Spectator (literary magazine), a literary magazine published from 1932 to 1937
• New-York Spectator, a New York City newspaper published as The Spectator from 1797 to 1804, New-York Spectator from 1804 to 1867, and New York Spectator and Weekly Commercial Advertiser from 1867 to 1876.
• Spectator Magazine, a BDSM/sex newspaper in San Francisco, California, published from 1978 until 2005
• The Washington Spectator, a liberal magazine, begun in 1971. A newspaper called the Spectator was published in Washington before the Civil War.

Student publications

• Columbia Daily Spectator, the student newspaper of Columbia University
• The Spectator (Stuyvesant High School), the student newspaper of Stuyvesant High School
• The Spectator, the student newspaper of Hamilton College
• The Spectator, the student newspaper of Valdosta State University