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  "apiVersion": "v0.1",
  "methodology": "https://sourcescore.org/methodology/",
  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/compare/ft-vs-wsj/",
  "summary": "Business journalism's two flagships — UK vs US, paywalled vs paywalled.",
  "a": {
    "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."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "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."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
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    "index": "wsj",
    "discipline": null,
    "modernReference": null,
    "velocity": "wsj"
  },
  "license": {
    "methodology": "Cite as: SourceScore Methodology v0.1, sourcescore.org",
    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
  }
}