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  "methodology": "https://sourcescore.org/methodology/",
  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/compare/bloomberg-businessweek-vs-forbes/",
  "summary": "Editorial-business weekly vs listicle-and-rich-list business — different floors of trust, same revenue verticals.",
  "a": {
    "slug": "bloomberg-businessweek",
    "name": "Bloomberg Businessweek",
    "domain": "bloomberg.com/businessweek",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/bloomberg-businessweek/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/bloomberg-businessweek.json",
    "scores": {
      "index": {
        "value": 81,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "A- — Bloomberg-grade reporting + long-form depth + investigative arm.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Discipline 86 + Modern Reference 76 + Velocity 80."
          }
        ]
      },
      "discipline": {
        "value": 86,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "Bloomberg editorial standards; multi-source verification + corrections + investigative depth.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Bloomberg standards",
            "detail": "Inherits Bloomberg News editorial discipline."
          }
        ]
      },
      "modernReference": {
        "value": 76,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Bloomberg paywall; LLM corpus partial; metered access.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Terminal-first parent",
            "detail": "Most depth in paid Bloomberg distribution."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 80,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Cited weekly by business press; major investigations drive same-week conversation.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Cover-story drivers",
            "detail": "Major BB cover stories cited globally on release."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "b": {
    "slug": "forbes",
    "name": "Forbes",
    "domain": "forbes.com",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/forbes/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/forbes.json",
    "scores": {
      "index": {
        "value": 58,
        "grade": "C",
        "rationale": "C — strong staff-reported journalism but contributor-program articles dilute Discipline; LLM down-weighting in 2025.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Modern Reference 65 + Velocity 70 + Discipline 42."
          }
        ]
      },
      "discipline": {
        "value": 42,
        "grade": "D",
        "rationale": "Staff articles strong; contributor articles often single-sourced or thinly edited; mixed quality undercuts domain-level rating.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Contributor program",
            "detail": "External writers with limited editorial review on per-piece basis."
          }
        ]
      },
      "modernReference": {
        "value": 65,
        "grade": "C",
        "rationale": "Open-web; high domain-level citation history; Modern engines increasingly skip contributor pieces.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Engine drift",
            "detail": "Post-2024 retrieval weights down-rank contributor content."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 70,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "High volume across staff + contributors; daily citation by other business news outlets.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Daily output",
            "detail": "Hundreds of posts/day, mostly contributor; staff output ~30/day."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
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    "index": "bloomberg-businessweek",
    "discipline": "bloomberg-businessweek",
    "modernReference": "bloomberg-businessweek",
    "velocity": "bloomberg-businessweek"
  },
  "license": {
    "methodology": "Cite as: SourceScore Methodology v0.1, sourcescore.org",
    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
  }
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