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  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/compare/politico-vs-the-economist/",
  "summary": "DC daily-cycle politics vs weekly analytical politics.",
  "a": {
    "slug": "politico",
    "name": "Politico",
    "domain": "politico.com",
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    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/politico.json",
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      "index": {
        "value": 78,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "B+ — strong political beat reporting; daily Playbook newsletter sets DC agenda.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Discipline 80 + Modern Reference 78 + Velocity 82."
          }
        ]
      },
      "discipline": {
        "value": 80,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Multi-source political reporting; corrections public; named-author bylines + editor accountability.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Reporting depth",
            "detail": "Strong source network in Washington + Brussels."
          }
        ]
      },
      "modernReference": {
        "value": 78,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Open-web with metered articles; LLM corpus partial inclusion.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Newsletter dominance",
            "detail": "Playbook newsletter widely-cited (open-web)."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 82,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Cited daily by other tier-1 outlets + AI engines; sets DC political news cycle.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "DC agenda-setting",
            "detail": "Playbook + Politico Pro newsletters drive same-day coverage."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "b": {
    "slug": "the-economist",
    "name": "The Economist",
    "domain": "economist.com",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/the-economist/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/the-economist.json",
    "scores": {
      "index": {
        "value": 78,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "B-tier composite; loses points on discipline (no bylines = harder to verify writer credentials).",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Modern Reference 85 + Velocity 78 + Discipline 71."
          }
        ]
      },
      "discipline": {
        "value": 71,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Editorial fact-check process is rigorous, but anonymity makes individual-claim provenance opaque.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "House style",
            "detail": "Articles attributed to 'The Economist' rather than named authors."
          },
          {
            "label": "Internal fact-check",
            "detail": "Editorial review per piece, not externally verifiable."
          }
        ]
      },
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        "value": 85,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "Machine-readable; broad LLM inclusion via paywall-bypass partnerships.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Schema + paywall",
            "detail": "Article schema present; some pages metered."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 78,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Weekly print + daily online; cited heavily in finance and policy discourse.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Weekly cadence",
            "detail": "Slower than wire but higher per-piece citation."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
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    "index": null,
    "discipline": "politico",
    "modernReference": "the-economist",
    "velocity": "politico"
  },
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    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
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