Ownership & Funding

Last reviewed 2026-07-21.

The Austin 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 Austin

Publisher

Nexcom Media

Parent network

Nexcom Media Network — nexcom.media

Founded

2024

Type

Independent digital news publisher

Region served

Austin, Texas

Mailing address

, Austin, TX 78701

Phone

Editorial contact

editor@nexcom.media

Funding model

To date, The Austin and the Nexcom network have been self-funded by the founders — the network has received no reader donations and no sponsorship revenue, and is not currently generating operating revenue. Our disclosed revenue model, if and when enabled:

1. Cloudflare Pay-Per-Crawl — fees from AI training crawlers that license our content. See crawler pricing.
2. 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.

Major donors & sponsors (current)

The Austin is self-funded by its founders and does not solicit or accept donations, sponsorships, or advertising.

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. Advertisers, sponsors, and donors have no advance access to content and no 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.

Related

• Editorial standards
• Corrections policy
• Diversity policy
• Privacy policy
• Terms of service