[1][2] News stories are published on the website and broadcast on Nexstar television stations across the border region.

[1] In September 2021, while reporting for the Border Report on the Del Rio Bridge migrant surge in Texas, Sanchez was detained by Laughlin Air Force Base military police for 45 minutes after photographing signs outside the base's gates.

In a live blog on the website, Sanchez said that military police claimed she had illegally entered federal property.

News content created on the tour was broadcast on some Nexstar TV stations, particularly those in the Southwest, and via online streaming.

[4] Writing in the Columbia Journalism Review, Meaghan Winter described Border Report as having a clear mission for its journalists, contrasting with the guiding principle that Nexstar passes down to station managers—"commitment to localism"—which Winter describes as "amorphous and lackluster".