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  "apiVersion": "v0.1",
  "methodology": "https://sourcescore.org/methodology/",
  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/compare/le-monde-vs-nyt/",
  "summary": "France's paper of record vs America's — different national-press traditions, both tier-1.",
  "a": {
    "slug": "le-monde",
    "name": "Le Monde",
    "domain": "lemonde.fr",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/le-monde/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/le-monde.json",
    "scores": {
      "index": {
        "value": 77,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "B — premier French-language news with strong editorial standards; paywall reduces Modern Reference.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Discipline 84 + Modern Reference 70 + Velocity 75."
          }
        ]
      },
      "discipline": {
        "value": 84,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Independent ownership (Le Monde Group), strong fact-check tradition, public corrections, named bylines.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Editorial independence",
            "detail": "Owned by employee + reader trust; structural independence from advertisers."
          }
        ]
      },
      "modernReference": {
        "value": 70,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Hard paywall on most articles; English edition open; structured data on free portion.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Paywall limitation",
            "detail": "Most reporting paywalled; reduces LLM training-corpus inclusion."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 75,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Tier-1 in francophone retrieval, regularly cited by tier-1 English press.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Francophone authority",
            "detail": "Default citation in French-speaking AI retrieval."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "b": {
    "slug": "nyt",
    "name": "The New York Times",
    "domain": "nytimes.com",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/nyt/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/nyt.json",
    "scores": {
      "index": {
        "value": 88,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "A — top-tier US journalism; high velocity + strong discipline; Modern Reference slightly hampered by paywall.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Discipline 88 + Modern Reference 82 + Velocity 92."
          }
        ]
      },
      "discipline": {
        "value": 88,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "Multi-source verification; fact-check + corrections processes public; named bylines + editor accountability.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Public corrections",
            "detail": "Daily corrections column dating back decades."
          },
          {
            "label": "Editor accountability",
            "detail": "Public editor / standards editor roles."
          }
        ]
      },
      "modernReference": {
        "value": 82,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Schema-rich; Article + Person + Organization JSON-LD; machine-readable; metered paywall reduces some training-corpus inclusion.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Paywall metering",
            "detail": "Subscription gate; partial corpus availability."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 92,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "Cited many times daily by other tier-1 outlets + AI engines; sets news cycle.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "News-cycle setting",
            "detail": "NYT exclusives drive same-day coverage across global media."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "winners": {
    "index": "nyt",
    "discipline": "nyt",
    "modernReference": "nyt",
    "velocity": "nyt"
  },
  "license": {
    "methodology": "Cite as: SourceScore Methodology v0.1, sourcescore.org",
    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
  }
}