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News

The New York Times

nytimes.com ↗

U.S. national newspaper of record, founded 1851. Pulitzer Prize record + investigative depth + structured-data-rich web platform.

SourceScore Index
A·88Composite weighted across Discipline, Modern Reference, and Velocity.

A — top-tier US journalism; high velocity + strong discipline; Modern Reference slightly hampered by paywall.

Citation Discipline
A·88

Multi-source verification; fact-check + corrections processes public; named bylines + editor accountability.

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Modern Reference
B·82

Schema-rich; Article + Person + Organization JSON-LD; machine-readable; metered paywall reduces some training-corpus inclusion.

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Citation Velocity
A·92

Cited many times daily by other tier-1 outlets + AI engines; sets news cycle.

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Signals behind these scores

Citation Discipline

A·88
  • Public corrections
    Daily corrections column dating back decades.
  • Editor accountability
    Public editor / standards editor roles.

Modern Reference

B·82
  • Paywall metering
    Subscription gate; partial corpus availability.

Citation Velocity

A·92
  • News-cycle setting
    NYT exclusives drive same-day coverage across global media.

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