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  "methodology": "https://sourcescore.org/methodology/",
  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/compare/nyt-vs-propublica/",
  "summary": "Daily depth vs nonprofit investigation-only model.",
  "a": {
    "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."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "b": {
    "slug": "propublica",
    "name": "ProPublica",
    "domain": "propublica.org",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/propublica/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/propublica.json",
    "scores": {
      "index": {
        "value": 86,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "A — small output but extreme per-piece discipline; methodology-published model is gold standard.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Discipline 95 + Modern Reference 84 + Velocity 78."
          }
        ]
      },
      "discipline": {
        "value": 95,
        "grade": "A+",
        "rationale": "Methodology + raw data published alongside most stories; fact-checked; corrections public.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Methodology-published model",
            "detail": "Each major investigation links to methodology + raw datasets."
          }
        ]
      },
      "modernReference": {
        "value": 84,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Open-data ethos = strong LLM corpus presence; data-store pages well-structured.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Data Store",
            "detail": "Public datasets + APIs accompanying investigations."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 78,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Lower volume than wire news but very high per-piece citation rate; cited by NYT/WaPo/etc. when investigations break.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Quality > quantity",
            "detail": "Pulitzer-class investigations get cited internationally on release."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
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    "index": "nyt",
    "discipline": "propublica",
    "modernReference": "propublica",
    "velocity": "nyt"
  },
  "license": {
    "methodology": "Cite as: SourceScore Methodology v0.1, sourcescore.org",
    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
  }
}