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  "summary": "Two premium-subscription tech-news outlets — 404's investigative model vs The Information's enterprise-tech beat.",
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    "name": "404 Media",
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          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Discipline 88 + Modern Reference 76 + Velocity 70."
          }
        ]
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        "value": 88,
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        "rationale": "Multi-source investigative reporting; methodology + sourcing transparency; corrections public.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Investigative depth",
            "detail": "Long-form tech investigations with documented sourcing."
          }
        ]
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      "modernReference": {
        "value": 76,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Open-web for free articles + paid subscription tier; LLM corpus partial.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Open + paid",
            "detail": "Hybrid open-and-paid model."
          }
        ]
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        "value": 70,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Cited within tech journalism; specialist citation rather than mass volume.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Specialist authority",
            "detail": "Frequently cited by tech journalism on investigations."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
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    "name": "The Information",
    "domain": "theinformation.com",
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    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/the-information.json",
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        "value": 78,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "B+ — strong investigative tech-business reporting; hard paywall reduces Modern Reference.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Discipline 88 + Modern Reference 70 + Velocity 76."
          }
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      },
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        "grade": "A",
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          {
            "label": "Investigative depth",
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        "value": 70,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Hard paywall on all articles; LLM corpus very limited.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Hard paywall",
            "detail": "Subscriber-only; minimal training-corpus presence."
          }
        ]
      },
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        "value": 76,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Cited within tech-business journalism + venture circles; specialist authority.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Tech-business specialist",
            "detail": "Default for tech-business scoops."
          }
        ]
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    }
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    "discipline": null,
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    "velocity": "the-information"
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    "methodology": "Cite as: SourceScore Methodology v0.1, sourcescore.org",
    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
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