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Who covers Minneapolis, MN?

Nexcom Media polls 7 local news feeds covering Minneapolis and Hennepin County — 7 were publishing when last tested — and has indexed 3,954 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.
7/7Feeds publishing
3,954Articles indexed
1,000In live window
58%local

The outlets

These are the 7 sources Nexcom monitors for Minneapolis coverage — 1 government, 4 television, 2 newspaper/digital. Outlets that do not publish a machine-readable feed are not represented.

Outlet / feed hostTypeStatus (tested 2026-07-18)
Google News - Hennepin County (county gov coverage)
news.google.com
Government Publishing
latest 2026-07-18
Sahan Journal
sahanjournal.com
Newspaper / digital Publishing
latest 2026-07-17
Star Tribune
startribune.com
Newspaper / digital Publishing
latest 2026-07-18
FOX 9 KMSP (FOX)
fox9.com
Television Publishing
latest 2026-07-18
KARE 11 (NBC)
kare11.com
Television Publishing
latest 2026-07-18
KSTP 5 Eyewitness News (ABC)
kstp.com
Television Publishing
latest 2026-07-18
WCCO / CBS News Minnesota (CBS)
cbsnews.com
Television Publishing
latest 2026-07-16

7 of 7 tracked feeds returned a recently-dated item when last tested.

What the coverage is about

Of 50 recent Minneapolis articles, the classifier labelled them:

local 58%   safety 34%   parks 4%   business 4%

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 Minneapolis news ecosystem. For the actual reporting, Nexcom Media publishes The Minneapolis in this market.

Cite this Minneapolis 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/minneapolis-mn

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