Local News Index › TX › Waco
Nexcom Media polls 6 local news feeds covering Waco and McLennan County — 5 were publishing when last tested — and has indexed 4,046 articles from them.
These are the 6 sources Nexcom monitors for Waco 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 Outlets that do not publish a machine-readable feed are not represented.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) |
|---|---|---|
| Baylor Lariat baylorlariat.com |
Newspaper / digital | Publishing latest 2026-06-22 |
| The Texas Tribune texastribune.org |
Newspaper / digital | Publishing latest 2026-07-18 |
| Waco Tribune-Herald wacotrib.com |
Newspaper / digital | Blocks our fetcher HTTP 429 |
| FOX 44 News (KWKT) fox44news.com |
Television | Publishing latest 2026-07-18 |
| KCEN (NBC 6) News kcentv.com |
Television | Publishing latest 2026-07-18 |
| KXXV (ABC 25) News kxxv.com |
Television | Publishing latest 2026-07-18 |
5 of 6 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 Waco 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 Waco news ecosystem. For the actual reporting, Nexcom Media publishes The Waco 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/waco-tx