The Monitor is a newspaper in McAllen, Texas that covers Starr and Hidalgo counties.

Both its former publisher, M. Olaf Frandsen, and its former editor-in-chief, Steve Fagan, have worked at Pulitzer-winning newspapers.

Frandsen was editor-in-chief of the Odessa American in 1988 when the paper won the Pulitzer for spot news photography.

Frandsen now is editor and publisher of the Salina, KS, Journal, a member of Harris Enterprises Inc.[4] In 2017 The Monitor partnered with Quartz to report on the issues of climate change in McAllen and Reynosa.

[5] In 2021 The Monitor merged online with the Valley Morning Star and The Brownsville Herald.