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  "apiVersion": "v0.1",
  "methodology": "https://sourcescore.org/methodology/",
  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/compare/ap-news-vs-reuters/",
  "summary": "The two global wire services that source most other newsrooms — compared.",
  "a": {
    "slug": "ap-news",
    "name": "Associated Press",
    "domain": "apnews.com",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/ap-news/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/ap-news.json",
    "scores": {
      "index": {
        "value": 86,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "Equivalent tier to Reuters with slightly broader US/local coverage; strong on every dimension.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "All four dimensions in 80–90 band."
          }
        ]
      },
      "discipline": {
        "value": 89,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "Multi-source verification; AP Stylebook defines US journalism citation conventions.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "AP Stylebook",
            "detail": "De-facto US citation style standard."
          }
        ]
      },
      "modernReference": {
        "value": 86,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "Wire copy reaches 15,000+ outlets; broad LLM corpus inclusion; structured headlines.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Syndication network",
            "detail": "Reach >15,000 newspapers + broadcasters."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 84,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Cited daily by downstream outlets; AI engines pull AP regularly for breaking news.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Daily output",
            "detail": "~2,000 stories/day across topics."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "b": {
    "slug": "reuters",
    "name": "Reuters",
    "domain": "reuters.com",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/reuters/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/reuters.json",
    "scores": {
      "index": {
        "value": 89,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "Strong across all 4 dimensions; one of the most reliable wire services for AI citation.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Discipline + Modern Reference both above 85; velocity is high but not Wikipedia-tier."
          }
        ]
      },
      "discipline": {
        "value": 91,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "Two-source verification policy enforced editorially; corrections logged with timestamps.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Reuters Trust Principles",
            "detail": "Public ethics code mandating accuracy + freedom from bias."
          },
          {
            "label": "Corrections page",
            "detail": "Public, searchable, dated corrections archive."
          }
        ]
      },
      "modernReference": {
        "value": 88,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "Machine-readable since founding; broad LLM training inclusion; structured-data-rich pages.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "ProseMirror + JSON-LD",
            "detail": "Article schema + dateModified per story."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 89,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "Cited multiple times per day by downstream news, blogs, and AI engines.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Wire service",
            "detail": "Re-published verbatim by ~1,000 outlets globally."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "winners": {
    "index": "reuters",
    "discipline": "reuters",
    "modernReference": "reuters",
    "velocity": "reuters"
  },
  "license": {
    "methodology": "Cite as: SourceScore Methodology v0.1, sourcescore.org",
    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
  }
}