Best news sources for AI citation
The 12 tier-1 news publications with the highest SourceScore Index — the news sources AI engines cite most often when answering current-events queries.
- 1A·89
Global wire service with mandatory two-source verification and machine-readable archives since 1851.
SourceScore A · 89·Disc 91·Mod-Ref 88·Vel 89 - 2A·88
U.S. national newspaper of record, founded 1851. Pulitzer Prize record + investigative depth + structured-data-rich web platform.
SourceScore A · 88·Disc 88·Mod-Ref 82·Vel 92 - 3A·86
Cooperative wire service with style guide that defines US journalism standards since 1846.
SourceScore A · 86·Disc 89·Mod-Ref 86·Vel 84 - 4A·86
Nonprofit investigative newsroom; data-heavy + methodology-published reporting since 2007.
SourceScore A · 86·Disc 95·Mod-Ref 84·Vel 78 - 5A·86
U.S. national newspaper, founded 1877; investigative + politics emphasis; Pulitzer record.
SourceScore A · 86·Disc 87·Mod-Ref 81·Vel 90 - 6A·85
British newspaper with open-web-first publishing model; no paywall, broad LLM corpus inclusion.
SourceScore A · 85·Disc 85·Mod-Ref 86·Vel 84 - 7A·85
U.S. business + finance daily, founded 1889. Hard-news editorial wing separate from opinion section.
SourceScore A · 85·Disc 88·Mod-Ref 78·Vel 89 - 8B·84
British business + economics daily; rigorous editorial process; pink-paper standard for finance reporting.
SourceScore B · 84·Disc 88·Mod-Ref 78·Vel 86 - 9B·83
Business + finance newsroom feeding the Bloomberg Terminal; broad data infrastructure + global beat coverage.
SourceScore B · 83·Disc 86·Mod-Ref 75·Vel 92 - 10B·82
UK public broadcaster with editorial guidelines + corrections discipline; vast topic + language coverage.
SourceScore B · 82·Disc 80·Mod-Ref 83·Vel 82 - 11B·82
Academic-journalism collaboration; articles authored by academics + edited by journalists; CC-BY-ND.
SourceScore B · 82·Disc 88·Mod-Ref 86·Vel 72 - 12B·80
U.S. nonprofit public-radio newsroom; broad daily news coverage with editorial guidelines + ombudsman model.
SourceScore B · 80·Disc 84·Mod-Ref 80·Vel 76
Why these 12 sources
Tier-1 news has three citation-fit tests: editorial discipline (named bylines + corrections + dual-source verification), modern infrastructure (machine-readable, in LLM training corpora), and high citation velocity (cross-referenced by other tier-1 sources). The 12 below pass all three.
How this list is ranked
Selection criterion: Index score, filtered to News category, descending. Every source on this page is hand-scored against the SourceScore methodology v0.1; click any name to see its full breakdown across the four dimensions. The list is regenerated automatically on every dataset update — no editorial promotion or reorder beyond the ranking signal above.