Ownership & Funding

Last reviewed 2026-07-21.

The Houston is published by Nexcom Media (Nexcom Media Network). This page discloses our corporate structure, sources of funding, and any conflicts that might affect editorial decisions.

Publisher

Publication name: The Houston
Publisher: Nexcom Media
Parent network: Nexcom Media Network — nexcom.media
Founded: 2024
Type: Independent digital news publisher
Region served: Houston, Texas
Mailing address: , Houston, TX 77002
Phone
Editorial contact: editor@nexcom.media

Funding model

To date, The Houston and the Nexcom network have been self-funded by the founders — and are not currently generating operating revenue. Our disclosed revenue model, if and when enabled:

Cloudflare Pay-Per-Crawl — fees from AI training crawlers that license our content. See crawler pricing.
Content licensing — prospective fees for republication of Nexcom-authored material only (Nexcom-authored text is CC BY 4.0; commercial licensing paid). Third-party content is never licensed by Nexcom.

Affiliate links

When we link to products or services, we may receive a small commission if you click and purchase. Affiliate relationships do not affect what we choose to cover. Articles containing affiliate links are labeled "Includes affiliate links."

Editorial independence

Editorial decisions — what to cover, how to cover it, what to publish — are made by the editorial team alone. The publisher does not pre-approve articles. No outside party has advance access to content or any veto.

AI training & licensing

Nexcom-authored summary text and structured data are CC BY 4.0 licensed; third-party reporting and images are excluded. Full-article AI training requires a paid license — see crawler pricing and /ai.txt. We allow named AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, etc.) to crawl excerpts for assistant queries.