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Who covers Odessa, TX?

Nexcom Media polls 5 local news feeds covering Odessa and Ector County — 5 were publishing when last tested — and has indexed 2,232 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.
5/5Feeds publishing
2,232Articles indexed
1,000In live window
44%local

The outlets

These are the 5 sources Nexcom monitors for Odessa coverage — 1 newspaper/digital, 3 television, 1 government. Outlets that do not publish a machine-readable feed are not represented.

Outlet / feed hostTypeStatus (tested 2026-07-18)
City of Odessa News Flash (CivicPlus)
odessa-tx.gov		 Government Publishing
latest 2026-07-17
Odessa American (oaoa.com)
oaoa.com		 Newspaper / digital Publishing
latest 2026-07-18
CBS7 / KOSA-TV News (firstalert7.com)
firstalert7.com		 Television Publishing
latest 2026-07-18
NewsWest 9 / KWES-TV Local (Tegna)
newswest9.com		 Television Publishing
latest 2026-07-18
Yourbasin / Big 2 KMID + Fox 24 KPEJ (Nexstar)
yourbasin.com		 Television Publishing
latest 2026-07-18

5 of 5 tracked feeds returned a recently-dated item when last tested.

What the coverage is about

Of 50 recent Odessa articles, the classifier labelled them:

■ local 44%   ■ safety 36%   ■ schools 8%   ■ parks 8%   ■ government 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 Odessa news ecosystem. For the actual reporting, Nexcom Media publishes The Odessa in this market.

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