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  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/compare/bloomberg-vs-the-economist/",
  "summary": "Terminal-driven financial newswire vs UK weekly analytical magazine — daily fact-stream vs weekly synthesis.",
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    "name": "Bloomberg News",
    "domain": "bloomberg.com",
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        "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.",
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          {
            "label": "The Way We Work",
            "detail": "Public editorial standards document."
          }
        ]
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        "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."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
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    "slug": "the-economist",
    "name": "The Economist",
    "domain": "economist.com",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/the-economist/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/the-economist.json",
    "scores": {
      "index": {
        "value": 78,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "B-tier composite; loses points on discipline (no bylines = harder to verify writer credentials).",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Modern Reference 85 + Velocity 78 + Discipline 71."
          }
        ]
      },
      "discipline": {
        "value": 71,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Editorial fact-check process is rigorous, but anonymity makes individual-claim provenance opaque.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "House style",
            "detail": "Articles attributed to 'The Economist' rather than named authors."
          },
          {
            "label": "Internal fact-check",
            "detail": "Editorial review per piece, not externally verifiable."
          }
        ]
      },
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        "value": 85,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "Machine-readable; broad LLM inclusion via paywall-bypass partnerships.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Schema + paywall",
            "detail": "Article schema present; some pages metered."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 78,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Weekly print + daily online; cited heavily in finance and policy discourse.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Weekly cadence",
            "detail": "Slower than wire but higher per-piece citation."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
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    "modernReference": "the-economist",
    "velocity": "bloomberg"
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    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
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