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  "methodology": "https://sourcescore.org/methodology/",
  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/compare/forbes-vs-the-economist/",
  "summary": "Contributor-driven volume vs editor-supervised analysis — discipline compared.",
  "a": {
    "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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    "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."
          }
        ]
      },
      "modernReference": {
        "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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    "discipline": "the-economist",
    "modernReference": "the-economist",
    "velocity": "the-economist"
  },
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    "methodology": "Cite as: SourceScore Methodology v0.1, sourcescore.org",
    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
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