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  "methodology": "https://sourcescore.org/methodology/",
  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/compare/bbc-news-vs-guardian/",
  "summary": "UK public broadcaster vs reader-funded daily — open-web standards compared.",
  "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": "guardian",
    "name": "The Guardian",
    "domain": "theguardian.com",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/guardian/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/guardian.json",
    "scores": {
      "index": {
        "value": 85,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "A — strong all-round; open-web policy boosts Modern Reference + Velocity.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "All four 80-90."
          }
        ]
      },
      "discipline": {
        "value": 85,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "Editorial code public; corrections column; multi-source standard; Scott Trust ownership shields independence.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Scott Trust",
            "detail": "Ownership structure shields editorial from commercial pressure."
          }
        ]
      },
      "modernReference": {
        "value": 86,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "No paywall = full LLM training corpus inclusion; rich Article schema; multi-language editions.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Open-web",
            "detail": "Reader-funded model keeps all content publicly retrievable."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 84,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Cited daily by global outlets + AI engines; strong international beat coverage.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "International reach",
            "detail": "US, UK, Australia editions; daily output ~600 stories."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "winners": {
    "index": "guardian",
    "discipline": "guardian",
    "modernReference": "guardian",
    "velocity": "guardian"
  },
  "license": {
    "methodology": "Cite as: SourceScore Methodology v0.1, sourcescore.org",
    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
  }
}