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  "methodology": "https://sourcescore.org/methodology/",
  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/compare/nyt-vs-washington-post/",
  "summary": "Two tier-1 US dailies with comparable Pulitzer record — head-to-head.",
  "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": "washington-post",
    "name": "The Washington Post",
    "domain": "washingtonpost.com",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/washington-post/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/washington-post.json",
    "scores": {
      "index": {
        "value": 86,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "A — top-tier US journalism; on par with NYT for political + investigative reporting.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Discipline 87 + Modern Reference 81 + Velocity 90."
          }
        ]
      },
      "discipline": {
        "value": 87,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "Multi-source verification; corrections public; named bylines + standards editor accountability.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Standards editor",
            "detail": "Public ombudsman/standards-editor role."
          }
        ]
      },
      "modernReference": {
        "value": 81,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Schema-rich; metered paywall reduces partial LLM training-corpus inclusion.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Schema markup",
            "detail": "Article + Person + Organization schema per article."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 90,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "Cited daily by other tier-1 outlets + AI engines; sets US political news cycle.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Political beat",
            "detail": "Default citation for US-federal-politics scoops."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
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    "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"
  }
}