The New York Times vs The Washington Post — Modern Reference
How fit each source is for citation in modern (LLM-era) writing — machine-readability, schema, freshness signals, AI-corpus presence.
The New York Times outscores The Washington Post on Modern Citation Reference by 1 points (B · 82 vs B · 81).
The New York Times
Schema-rich; Article + Person + Organization JSON-LD; machine-readable; metered paywall reduces some training-corpus inclusion.
The Washington Post
Schema-rich; metered paywall reduces partial LLM training-corpus inclusion.
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Why these Modern Reference scores
Schema-rich; Article + Person + Organization JSON-LD; machine-readable; metered paywall reduces some training-corpus inclusion.
Schema-rich; metered paywall reduces partial LLM training-corpus inclusion.
Signals behind the Modern Reference score
- Paywall meteringSubscription gate; partial corpus availability.
- Schema markupArticle + Person + Organization schema per article.
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Sources & references
Every score on this page is read from the two publications below and graded against the published rubric. No score is bought, estimated or supplied by the source being scored.
- Source evaluated — The New York Times (nytimes.com) · verified · full scoring record
- Source evaluated — The Washington Post (washingtonpost.com) · verified · full scoring record
- Scoring rubric — SourceScore Index, Citation Discipline, Modern Reference, Citation Velocity (methodology v0.1)
- Machine-readable record — /api/compare/nyt-vs-washington-post/modern-reference.json