MODERN REFERENCE · 30% of composite
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.
Verdict
The New York Times outscores The Washington Post on Modern Citation Reference by 1 points (B · 82 vs B · 81).
Higher Modern Reference
News
The New York Times
nytimes.com
B·82
Rank #68 of 130 on Modern Reference
Schema-rich; Article + Person + Organization JSON-LD; machine-readable; metered paywall reduces some training-corpus inclusion.
News
The Washington Post
washingtonpost.com
B·81
Rank #76 of 130 on Modern Reference
Schema-rich; metered paywall reduces partial LLM training-corpus inclusion.
Global rank · Modern Reference
Why these Modern Reference scores
The New York TimesB·82
Modern Reference · 82/100
Schema-rich; Article + Person + Organization JSON-LD; machine-readable; metered paywall reduces some training-corpus inclusion.
The Washington PostB·81
Modern Reference · 81/100
Schema-rich; metered paywall reduces partial LLM training-corpus inclusion.
Signals behind the Modern Reference score
The New York Times
- Paywall meteringSubscription gate; partial corpus availability.
The Washington Post
- Schema markupArticle + Person + Organization schema per article.
Other dimensions for The New York Times vs The Washington Post
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