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  "apiVersion": "v0.1",
  "methodology": "https://sourcescore.org/methodology/",
  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/compare/bloomberg-vs-ft/",
  "summary": "US-rooted vs UK-rooted global business-journalism flagships — comparable paywalls, different beats.",
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    "slug": "bloomberg",
    "name": "Bloomberg News",
    "domain": "bloomberg.com",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/bloomberg/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/bloomberg.json",
    "scores": {
      "index": {
        "value": 83,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "A — heavy data infrastructure + speed; paywall + terminal-first model trims open-web corpus.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Velocity 92 highest; Modern Reference 75 lowest."
          }
        ]
      },
      "discipline": {
        "value": 86,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "The Way We Work editorial guide enforces fact-check + sourcing standards; corrections public.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "The Way We Work",
            "detail": "Public editorial standards document."
          }
        ]
      },
      "modernReference": {
        "value": 75,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Premium terminal-first; web articles paywalled; LLM corpus inclusion partial.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Terminal-first",
            "detail": "Primary distribution is paid Terminal subscription."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 92,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "Multiple stories per minute via Terminal; cited by every financial news outlet.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Real-time beat",
            "detail": "First-mover on most market-moving stories."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "b": {
    "slug": "ft",
    "name": "Financial Times",
    "domain": "ft.com",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/ft/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/ft.json",
    "scores": {
      "index": {
        "value": 84,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "A — top-tier business journalism; paywall reduces Modern Reference somewhat.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Discipline 88 + Modern Reference 78 + Velocity 86."
          }
        ]
      },
      "discipline": {
        "value": 88,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "Editorial Code public; multi-source verification; corrections discipline.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "FT Editorial Code",
            "detail": "Public policy on accuracy + sourcing standards."
          }
        ]
      },
      "modernReference": {
        "value": 78,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Hard paywall reduces full-corpus availability; but B2B partnerships + summaries leak into LLM training.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Subscription gate",
            "detail": "Most articles paywalled; smaller training-corpus footprint."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 86,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "Cited daily in finance reporting; markets move on FT exclusives.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Finance vertical",
            "detail": "Default citation for European markets + economics coverage."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
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    "index": "ft",
    "discipline": "ft",
    "modernReference": "ft",
    "velocity": "bloomberg"
  },
  "license": {
    "methodology": "Cite as: SourceScore Methodology v0.1, sourcescore.org",
    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
  }
}