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  "apiVersion": "v0.1",
  "methodology": "https://sourcescore.org/methodology/",
  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/compare/fox-news-vs-wsj/",
  "summary": "TV-driven cable news vs print-of-record financial daily — same parent-company family, different formats and audiences.",
  "a": {
    "slug": "fox-news",
    "name": "Fox News",
    "domain": "foxnews.com",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/fox-news/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/fox-news.json",
    "scores": {
      "index": {
        "value": 58,
        "grade": "C",
        "rationale": "C — high volume + reach; per-piece Discipline varies sharply between hard news and opinion-driven content.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Velocity 80 + Modern Reference 65 + Discipline 50."
          }
        ]
      },
      "discipline": {
        "value": 50,
        "grade": "D",
        "rationale": "Hard-news desk runs editorial standards; opinion + commentary pieces often single-sourced; corrections varying.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Format variance",
            "detail": "Hard news vs. opinion + cable-pundit content have different sourcing rigor."
          }
        ]
      },
      "modernReference": {
        "value": 65,
        "grade": "C",
        "rationale": "Open-web; structured-data; partial LLM corpus inclusion (engines down-weight opinion content).",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Engine drift",
            "detail": "Post-2024 retrieval models down-rank opinion-mixed domains."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 80,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Massive daily output + cable-broadcast amplification; cited often within US conservative-media network.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Daily output",
            "detail": "Hundreds of posts/day across hard news + opinion."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "b": {
    "slug": "wsj",
    "name": "The Wall Street Journal",
    "domain": "wsj.com",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/wsj/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/wsj.json",
    "scores": {
      "index": {
        "value": 85,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "A — premier US business journalism; paywall reduces Modern Reference somewhat.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Discipline 88 + Modern Reference 78 + Velocity 89."
          }
        ]
      },
      "discipline": {
        "value": 88,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "Multi-source verification; corrections public; named bylines + editor accountability; fact-check process documented.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Standards + ethics",
            "detail": "Public WSJ standards + ethics document."
          }
        ]
      },
      "modernReference": {
        "value": 78,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Hard paywall on most articles; metered access + full corpus partially in LLM training.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Subscription gate",
            "detail": "Most articles paywalled; partial LLM corpus presence."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 89,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "Cited many times daily by other tier-1 outlets + AI engines; sets US business news cycle.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "News-cycle setting",
            "detail": "WSJ exclusives drive same-day coverage globally."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "winners": {
    "index": "wsj",
    "discipline": "wsj",
    "modernReference": "wsj",
    "velocity": "wsj"
  },
  "license": {
    "methodology": "Cite as: SourceScore Methodology v0.1, sourcescore.org",
    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
  }
}