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Who covers Nashville, TN?

Nexcom Media polls 5 local news feeds covering Nashville and Davidson County — 4 were publishing when last tested — and has indexed 4,922 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.
4/5Feeds publishing
4,922Articles indexed
1,000In live window
44%local

The outlets

These are the 5 sources Nexcom monitors for Nashville coverage — 4 television, 1 newspaper/digital. Outlets that do not publish a machine-readable feed are not represented.

Outlet / feed hostTypeStatus (tested 2026-07-18)
Nashville Scene (alt-weekly)
nashvillescene.com
Newspaper / digital Blocks our fetcher
HTTP 429
FOX 17 WZTV Nashville (local news)
fox17.com
Television Publishing
latest 2026-07-18
NewsChannel 5 WTVF (CBS affiliate)
newschannel5.com
Television Publishing
latest 2026-07-18
WKRN News 2 (ABC affiliate)
wkrn.com
Television Publishing
latest 2026-07-18
WSMV 4 News (NBC affiliate)
wsmv.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.

What the coverage is about

Of 50 recent Nashville articles, the classifier labelled them:

local 44%   safety 42%   government 6%   schools 4%   parks 2%   business 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 Nashville news ecosystem. For the actual reporting, Nexcom Media publishes The Nashville in this market.

Cite this Nashville 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/nashville-tn

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