Local News Index › TX › Midland
Nexcom Media polls 5 local news feeds covering Midland and Midland County — 4 were publishing when last tested — and has indexed 2,413 articles from them.
These are the 5 sources Nexcom monitors for Midland coverage — 3 television, 1 newspaper/digital, 1 government. Outlets that do not publish a machine-readable feed are not represented.
| Outlet / feed host | Type | Status (tested 2026-07-18) |
|---|---|---|
| City of Midland - News Flash (city government) midlandtexas.gov |
Government | Publishing latest 2026-07-17 |
| Midland Reporter-Telegram (local newspaper) mrt.com |
Newspaper / digital | Blocks our fetcher HTTP 403 |
| KMID ABC Big 2 / YourBasin (Permian Basin ABC) yourbasin.com |
Television | Publishing latest 2026-07-17 |
| KOSA CBS7 / First Alert 7 (Permian Basin CBS) firstalert7.com |
Television | Publishing latest 2026-07-18 |
| KWES NewsWest 9 (Permian Basin NBC) newswest9.com |
Television | Publishing latest 2026-07-18 |
4 of 5 tracked feeds returned a recently-dated item when last tested; 1 refused or failed our fetcher, which usually means bot-blocking rather than a closed newsroom.
Of 50 recent Midland articles, the classifier labelled them:
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 →
This page measures the Midland news ecosystem. For the actual reporting, Nexcom Media publishes The Midland in this market.
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/midland-tx