This tool finds local news sources for a given city and state in the United States. It combines FCC-licensed television stations, NPR member stations, and local newspapers to provide a set of local news sources that you can bundle into a Google query along with your own search terms.
Enter a city and state. The Local News search finds the DMA (Designated Market Area) of a city and state, uses the FCC license database to find television stations serving that DMA, and also provides a list of newspapers and NPR member stations for that state via Wikipedia data.
Those resources are presented to you in a checkbox'd list. Click the checkboxes of the resources you want to include in your search and, choose the date spans you want to search, add your own query terms, and away you go. Because of Google's query limits, you may search only 25 sources at a time. A counter in the corner of the page will track how many boxes you've checked.
This URL location is temporary, I plan on integrating this tool into SearchTweaks as soon as I stop adding sources.
Big thanks to SimpleMaps for making a dataset of US zipcodes available for the low low price of attribution.
United States Local News Search is a Calishat jam!