MODERN REFERENCE · 30% of composite
The Wall Street Journal — Modern Reference
wsj.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 on most articles; metered access + full corpus partially in LLM training.
What drives this Modern Reference score
- Subscription gateMost articles paywalled; partial LLM corpus presence.
Global rank
#88 of 130
By Modern Reference across all SourceScore sources
In-category rank
#13 of 27
Among news sources
Vs. averages
Cat. mean: 77
Global mean: 81
Global mean: 81
+1 above category