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          "label": "Paywall limitation",
          "detail": "Most reporting paywalled; reduces LLM training-corpus inclusion."
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      "globalTotal": 130
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    "category": "News",
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        {
          "label": "Paywall metering",
          "detail": "Subscription gate; partial corpus availability."
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      "global": 68,
      "globalTotal": 130
    }
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    "winner": "nyt",
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