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  "methodology": "https://sourcescore.org/methodology/",
  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/compare/bbc-news-vs-bbc-research/",
  "summary": "BBC public-service journalism vs BBC R&D — same parent, different arms (news vs technology research).",
  "a": {
    "slug": "bbc-news",
    "name": "BBC News",
    "domain": "bbc.com",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/bbc-news/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/bbc-news.json",
    "scores": {
      "index": {
        "value": 82,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Strong B+; multi-language reach lifts Modern Reference + Velocity above many peers.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Velocity + Modern Reference both above 80."
          }
        ]
      },
      "discipline": {
        "value": 80,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Editorial Guidelines mandate dual-source verification; corrections page public.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "BBC Editorial Guidelines",
            "detail": "Public ethics + editorial code."
          }
        ]
      },
      "modernReference": {
        "value": 83,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "44-language coverage = unusually high LLM corpus inclusion across non-English contexts.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Language coverage",
            "detail": "Articles in 44 languages → broad multilingual training data."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 82,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Cited heavily by global news + AI engines; strong UK-domain authority.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Global reach",
            "detail": "Top-10 news domain by visit volume worldwide."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "b": {
    "slug": "bbc-research",
    "name": "BBC Research & Development",
    "domain": "bbc.co.uk/rd",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/bbc-research/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/bbc-research.json",
    "scores": {
      "index": {
        "value": 78,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "B+ — institutional research + open code; lower velocity than mainstream BBC.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Discipline 84 + Modern Reference 82 + Velocity 70."
          }
        ]
      },
      "discipline": {
        "value": 84,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "BBC editorial + technical-research practices; methodology disclosed.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "BBC R&D papers",
            "detail": "Public technical papers with peer-review-equivalent standards."
          }
        ]
      },
      "modernReference": {
        "value": 82,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Open-source code + papers; broad LLM corpus inclusion in tech vertical.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Open source",
            "detail": "GitHub repositories with permissive licenses."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 70,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Cited within media-tech research; specialist citation rather than mass volume.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Specialist authority",
            "detail": "Frequently cited on broadcasting tech research."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
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    "index": "bbc-news",
    "discipline": "bbc-research",
    "modernReference": "bbc-news",
    "velocity": "bbc-news"
  },
  "license": {
    "methodology": "Cite as: SourceScore Methodology v0.1, sourcescore.org",
    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
  }
}