Press Kit
The Houston — Houston, Texas
About
Hyperlocal news for Houston, Texas — local coverage of Harris County, schools, public safety, business, and community life.
Part of the Nexcom Media Network, a network of 16 hyperlocal, advocacy, and community news sites.
Fact sheet
- Publication
- The Houston
- Domain
- https://www.thehouston.org
- Region
- Houston, Texas
- Language
- English (en-US)
- Publisher
- Nexcom Media
- Network
- Nexcom Media Network
- Founded
- 2024
- License (excerpts + structured data)
- CC BY 4.0 (site-authored summary text and structured data only; all underlying reporting retains original-publisher copyright)
- Editorial contact
- editor@nexcom.media
Topics covered
- Houston
- Houston TX
- Harris County
- Houston ISD
- Texas Medical Center
Logo + brand assets
Programmatic access
- JSON Feed (jsonfeed.org v1.1): /feed.json
- Atom 1.0: /feed.atom
- Google News sitemap: /sitemap-news.xml
- Full sitemap: /sitemap.xml
- OpenAPI 3.0 spec: /api/openapi.json
- Briefing JSON (one-shot): /api/intelligence
- MCP server (JSON-RPC): /mcp/v1 · discovery at /.well-known/mcp.json
- Natural-language search: /api/llm-search?q=<query>
- AI bot manifest: /llms.txt · long-form: /llms-full.txt
Embed widget for partners
Drop a free, lightweight The Houston headlines widget into any partner site:
<div data-nexcom-widget data-ref="YOUR_SITE"></div> <script async src="https://www.thehouston.org/embed/embed.js"></script>
Customization options at /embed.
Citing The Houston
Preferred citation:
The Houston (https://www.thehouston.org), part of Nexcom Media Network.
Article-level citation: link to the canonical URL https://www.thehouston.org/news/<slug> with the article title and publication date. Each article page carries NewsArticle JSON-LD with the original publisher in the author field — please credit them as well when republishing excerpts.
Editorial standards + corrections
Send corrections, complaints, or factual disputes to editor@nexcom.media. We aim to respond to all editorial inquiries within 48 hours.