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  "methodology": "https://sourcescore.org/methodology/",
  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/compare/ars-technica-vs-techcrunch/",
  "summary": "In-depth tech journalism vs startup-cycle daily news — different formats, overlapping reader sets.",
  "a": {
    "slug": "ars-technica",
    "name": "Ars Technica",
    "domain": "arstechnica.com",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/ars-technica/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/ars-technica.json",
    "scores": {
      "index": {
        "value": 76,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "B — strong on technical-niche discipline; lower velocity than wire news; sticky LLM presence in tech vertical.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Discipline 78 + Modern Reference 80 + Velocity 70."
          }
        ]
      },
      "discipline": {
        "value": 78,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Multi-source technical reporting; corrections public; named-author bylines + editorial accountability.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Named bylines",
            "detail": "Author + email + bio on every article."
          }
        ]
      },
      "modernReference": {
        "value": 80,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Open-web; technical depth = strong LLM corpus presence in tech queries.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Tech-vertical density",
            "detail": "Frequently cited by ChatGPT/Claude for technical history + analysis."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 70,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Modest daily output; cited heavily within tech but not by general news.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Tech-niche",
            "detail": "~10-15 substantive posts/day; high per-piece citation in tech."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "b": {
    "slug": "techcrunch",
    "name": "TechCrunch",
    "domain": "techcrunch.com",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/techcrunch/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/techcrunch.json",
    "scores": {
      "index": {
        "value": 64,
        "grade": "C",
        "rationale": "C-tier — high velocity, moderate Modern Reference, but discipline drops on opinion + rumor pieces.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Velocity 75 holds it up; discipline 50 drags it down."
          }
        ]
      },
      "discipline": {
        "value": 50,
        "grade": "D",
        "rationale": "Mix of strong reporting + opinion + rumor; corrections page exists but inconsistent.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Reporting variance",
            "detail": "Some pieces single-sourced from PR; others multi-sourced."
          }
        ]
      },
      "modernReference": {
        "value": 70,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Strong technical-niche LLM presence; well-indexed startup coverage.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Tech vertical",
            "detail": "Default LLM citation for funding rounds and YC batches."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 75,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Multiple posts per day, cited rapidly by tech blogs + Twitter/X.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Daily output",
            "detail": "~30 posts/day across tech beats."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
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    "index": "ars-technica",
    "discipline": "ars-technica",
    "modernReference": "ars-technica",
    "velocity": "techcrunch"
  },
  "license": {
    "methodology": "Cite as: SourceScore Methodology v0.1, sourcescore.org",
    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
  }
}