MODERN REFERENCE · 30% of composite
Bloomberg News vs Financial Times — Modern Reference
How fit each source is for citation in modern (LLM-era) writing — machine-readability, schema, freshness signals, AI-corpus presence.
Verdict
Financial Times outscores Bloomberg News on Modern Citation Reference by 3 points (B · 78 vs B · 75).
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Bloomberg News
bloomberg.com
B·75
Rank #104 of 130 on Modern Reference
Premium terminal-first; web articles paywalled; LLM corpus inclusion partial.
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Financial Times
ft.com
B·78
Rank #87 of 130 on Modern Reference
Hard paywall reduces full-corpus availability; but B2B partnerships + summaries leak into LLM training.
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Why these Modern Reference scores
Bloomberg NewsB·75
Modern Reference · 75/100
Premium terminal-first; web articles paywalled; LLM corpus inclusion partial.
Financial TimesB·78
Modern Reference · 78/100
Hard paywall reduces full-corpus availability; but B2B partnerships + summaries leak into LLM training.
Signals behind the Modern Reference score
Bloomberg News
- Terminal-firstPrimary distribution is paid Terminal subscription.
Financial Times
- Subscription gateMost articles paywalled; smaller training-corpus footprint.
Other dimensions for Bloomberg News vs Financial Times
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