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  "summary": "UK daily of finance-record vs UK weekly of analytical-record — overlapping audiences, complementary cadences.",
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    "name": "Financial Times",
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        "value": 84,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "A — top-tier business journalism; paywall reduces Modern Reference somewhat.",
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            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Discipline 88 + Modern Reference 78 + Velocity 86."
          }
        ]
      },
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        "value": 88,
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          {
            "label": "FT Editorial Code",
            "detail": "Public policy on accuracy + sourcing standards."
          }
        ]
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        "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."
          }
        ]
      },
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        "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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    "name": "The Economist",
    "domain": "economist.com",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/the-economist/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/the-economist.json",
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      "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."
          }
        ]
      },
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        "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."
          }
        ]
      },
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        "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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    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
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