Who covers Detroit, MI?

Name: Local news coverage in Detroit, MI — Nexcom Local News Index
Creator: Nexcom Media
Published: 2026-07-18T21:58:50Z
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Nexcom Media polls 6 local news feeds covering Detroit and Wayne County — 6 were publishing when last tested — and has indexed 3,982 articles from them.

Conflict of interest — read first. Nexcom Media is a commercial competitor to the outlets counted here. We operate an advertising-supported local-news site in every market listed, competing for the same readers and ad inventory as the stations and newspapers whose feeds we track. No Nexcom-owned domain is counted as a tracked outlet (verifiable: every feed's host is published below). We publish this anyway because every row is checkable — but weigh the source, and verify anything you intend to cite.

6/6Feeds publishing

3,982Articles indexed

1,000In live window

44%local

The outlets

These are the 6 sources Nexcom monitors for Detroit coverage — 3 television, 3 newspaper/digital. Outlets that do not publish a machine-readable feed are not represented.

Outlet / feed host	Type	Status (tested 2026-07-18)
BridgeDetroit bridgedetroit.com	Newspaper / digital	Publishing latest 2026-07-18
Outlier Media (Detroit) outliermedia.org	Newspaper / digital	Publishing latest 2026-07-16
Planet Detroit planetdetroit.org	Newspaper / digital	Publishing latest 2026-07-18
FOX 2 Detroit (WJBK) - News fox2detroit.com	Television	Publishing latest 2026-07-18
WDIV ClickOnDetroit (NBC) - Local News clickondetroit.com	Television	Publishing latest 2026-07-18
WXYZ Channel 7 (ABC Detroit) - News wxyz.com	Television	Publishing latest 2026-07-18

6 of 6 tracked feeds returned a recently-dated item when last tested.

What the coverage is about

Of 50 recent Detroit articles, the classifier labelled them:

■ local 44% ■ safety 40% ■ government 8% ■ business 6% ■ parks 2%

Labels come from a documented keyword classifier, not human review. 55.6% of articles network-wide match no topic keyword and fall through to "local", so that share is best read as "general local coverage", not a topic. How this is measured →

Read the news itself

This page measures the Detroit news ecosystem. For the actual reporting, Nexcom Media publishes The Detroit in this market.

Cite this Detroit entry

Nexcom Local News Index, 2026-07 edition. Nexcom Media. https://nexcom.media/local-news-index (CC BY 4.0) — https://nexcom.media/local-news-index/market/detroit-mi

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Who covers Detroit, MI?

The outlets

What the coverage is about

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