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    "slug": "news-sources",
    "title": "Best news sources for AI citation",
    "intent": "Top tier-1 news publications",
    "description": "The 12 tier-1 news publications with the highest SourceScore Index — the news sources AI engines cite most often when answering current-events queries.",
    "rationale": "Tier-1 news has three citation-fit tests: editorial discipline (named bylines + corrections + dual-source verification), modern infrastructure (machine-readable, in LLM training corpora), and high citation velocity (cross-referenced by other tier-1 sources). The 12 below pass all three.",
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    {
      "rank": 1,
      "slug": "reuters",
      "name": "Reuters",
      "domain": "reuters.com",
      "category": "News",
      "summary": "Global wire service with mandatory two-source verification and machine-readable archives since 1851.",
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      "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/reuters.json",
      "scores": {
        "index": 89,
        "indexGrade": "A",
        "discipline": 91,
        "modernReference": 88,
        "velocity": 89
      }
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    {
      "rank": 2,
      "slug": "nyt",
      "name": "The New York Times",
      "domain": "nytimes.com",
      "category": "News",
      "summary": "U.S. national newspaper of record, founded 1851. Pulitzer Prize record + investigative depth + structured-data-rich web platform.",
      "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/nyt/",
      "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/nyt.json",
      "scores": {
        "index": 88,
        "indexGrade": "A",
        "discipline": 88,
        "modernReference": 82,
        "velocity": 92
      }
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "slug": "ap-news",
      "name": "Associated Press",
      "domain": "apnews.com",
      "category": "News",
      "summary": "Cooperative wire service with style guide that defines US journalism standards since 1846.",
      "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/ap-news/",
      "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/ap-news.json",
      "scores": {
        "index": 86,
        "indexGrade": "A",
        "discipline": 89,
        "modernReference": 86,
        "velocity": 84
      }
    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "slug": "propublica",
      "name": "ProPublica",
      "domain": "propublica.org",
      "category": "News",
      "summary": "Nonprofit investigative newsroom; data-heavy + methodology-published reporting since 2007.",
      "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/propublica/",
      "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/propublica.json",
      "scores": {
        "index": 86,
        "indexGrade": "A",
        "discipline": 95,
        "modernReference": 84,
        "velocity": 78
      }
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    {
      "rank": 5,
      "slug": "washington-post",
      "name": "The Washington Post",
      "domain": "washingtonpost.com",
      "category": "News",
      "summary": "U.S. national newspaper, founded 1877; investigative + politics emphasis; Pulitzer record.",
      "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/washington-post/",
      "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/washington-post.json",
      "scores": {
        "index": 86,
        "indexGrade": "A",
        "discipline": 87,
        "modernReference": 81,
        "velocity": 90
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    },
    {
      "rank": 6,
      "slug": "guardian",
      "name": "The Guardian",
      "domain": "theguardian.com",
      "category": "News",
      "summary": "British newspaper with open-web-first publishing model; no paywall, broad LLM corpus inclusion.",
      "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/guardian/",
      "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/guardian.json",
      "scores": {
        "index": 85,
        "indexGrade": "A",
        "discipline": 85,
        "modernReference": 86,
        "velocity": 84
      }
    },
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      "rank": 7,
      "slug": "wsj",
      "name": "The Wall Street Journal",
      "domain": "wsj.com",
      "category": "News",
      "summary": "U.S. business + finance daily, founded 1889. Hard-news editorial wing separate from opinion section.",
      "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/wsj/",
      "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/wsj.json",
      "scores": {
        "index": 85,
        "indexGrade": "A",
        "discipline": 88,
        "modernReference": 78,
        "velocity": 89
      }
    },
    {
      "rank": 8,
      "slug": "ft",
      "name": "Financial Times",
      "domain": "ft.com",
      "category": "News",
      "summary": "British business + economics daily; rigorous editorial process; pink-paper standard for finance reporting.",
      "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/ft/",
      "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/ft.json",
      "scores": {
        "index": 84,
        "indexGrade": "B",
        "discipline": 88,
        "modernReference": 78,
        "velocity": 86
      }
    },
    {
      "rank": 9,
      "slug": "bloomberg",
      "name": "Bloomberg News",
      "domain": "bloomberg.com",
      "category": "News",
      "summary": "Business + finance newsroom feeding the Bloomberg Terminal; broad data infrastructure + global beat coverage.",
      "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/bloomberg/",
      "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/bloomberg.json",
      "scores": {
        "index": 83,
        "indexGrade": "B",
        "discipline": 86,
        "modernReference": 75,
        "velocity": 92
      }
    },
    {
      "rank": 10,
      "slug": "bbc-news",
      "name": "BBC News",
      "domain": "bbc.com",
      "category": "News",
      "summary": "UK public broadcaster with editorial guidelines + corrections discipline; vast topic + language coverage.",
      "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/bbc-news/",
      "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/bbc-news.json",
      "scores": {
        "index": 82,
        "indexGrade": "B",
        "discipline": 80,
        "modernReference": 83,
        "velocity": 82
      }
    },
    {
      "rank": 11,
      "slug": "the-conversation",
      "name": "The Conversation",
      "domain": "theconversation.com",
      "category": "News",
      "summary": "Academic-journalism collaboration; articles authored by academics + edited by journalists; CC-BY-ND.",
      "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/the-conversation/",
      "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/the-conversation.json",
      "scores": {
        "index": 82,
        "indexGrade": "B",
        "discipline": 88,
        "modernReference": 86,
        "velocity": 72
      }
    },
    {
      "rank": 12,
      "slug": "npr",
      "name": "NPR",
      "domain": "npr.org",
      "category": "News",
      "summary": "U.S. nonprofit public-radio newsroom; broad daily news coverage with editorial guidelines + ombudsman model.",
      "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/npr/",
      "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/npr.json",
      "scores": {
        "index": 80,
        "indexGrade": "B",
        "discipline": 84,
        "modernReference": 80,
        "velocity": 76
      }
    }
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    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
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