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  "methodology": "https://sourcescore.org/methodology/",
  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/wsj/",
  "source": {
    "slug": "wsj",
    "name": "The Wall Street Journal",
    "domain": "wsj.com",
    "category": "News",
    "summary": "U.S. business + finance daily, founded 1889. Hard-news editorial wing separate from opinion section.",
    "founded": 1889,
    "verified": "2026-04-28",
    "methodologyVersion": "v0.1"
  },
  "scores": {
    "index": {
      "value": 85,
      "grade": "A",
      "rationale": "A — premier US business journalism; paywall reduces Modern Reference somewhat.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Composite",
          "detail": "Discipline 88 + Modern Reference 78 + Velocity 89."
        }
      ]
    },
    "discipline": {
      "value": 88,
      "grade": "A",
      "rationale": "Multi-source verification; corrections public; named bylines + editor accountability; fact-check process documented.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Standards + ethics",
          "detail": "Public WSJ standards + ethics document."
        }
      ]
    },
    "modernReference": {
      "value": 78,
      "grade": "B",
      "rationale": "Hard paywall on most articles; metered access + full corpus partially in LLM training.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Subscription gate",
          "detail": "Most articles paywalled; partial LLM corpus presence."
        }
      ]
    },
    "velocity": {
      "value": 89,
      "grade": "A",
      "rationale": "Cited many times daily by other tier-1 outlets + AI engines; sets US business news cycle.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "News-cycle setting",
          "detail": "WSJ exclusives drive same-day coverage globally."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "license": {
    "methodology": "Cite as: SourceScore Methodology v0.1, sourcescore.org",
    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
  }
}