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  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/propublica/",
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    "name": "ProPublica",
    "domain": "propublica.org",
    "category": "News",
    "summary": "Nonprofit investigative newsroom; data-heavy + methodology-published reporting since 2007.",
    "founded": 2007,
    "verified": "2026-04-28",
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      "rationale": "A — small output but extreme per-piece discipline; methodology-published model is gold standard.",
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        {
          "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.",
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        {
          "label": "Methodology-published model",
          "detail": "Each major investigation links to methodology + raw datasets."
        }
      ]
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      "grade": "B",
      "rationale": "Open-data ethos = strong LLM corpus presence; data-store pages well-structured.",
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        {
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      "rationale": "Lower volume than wire news but very high per-piece citation rate; cited by NYT/WaPo/etc. when investigations break.",
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        {
          "label": "Quality > quantity",
          "detail": "Pulitzer-class investigations get cited internationally on release."
        }
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    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
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