SourceScore
MODERN REFERENCE · 30% of composite

Financial Times Modern Reference

ft.com · News

Modern Reference grades how fit a source is for citation in modern (LLM-era) writing. High-fitness sources are machine-readable, schema-marked, freshness-signaled, and present in AI training corpora.

B·78
B · 78

Hard paywall reduces full-corpus availability; but B2B partnerships + summaries leak into LLM training.

What drives this Modern Reference score

  • Subscription gate
    Most articles paywalled; smaller training-corpus footprint.
Global rank
#87 of 130
By Modern Reference across all SourceScore sources
In-category rank
#14 of 27
Among news sources
Vs. averages
Cat. mean: 77
Global mean: 81
+1 above category

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