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News

The Times (UK)

thetimes.co.uk ↗

UK paper of record since 1785, hard-paywalled, owned by News UK (News Corp).

SourceScore Index
B·74Composite weighted across Discipline, Modern Reference, and Velocity.

B — strong editorial standards but hard paywall significantly limits Modern Reference.

Citation Discipline
B·82

Long fact-check tradition; named bylines; corrections public; some opinion-news drift noted.

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Modern Reference
C·65

Hard paywall on virtually all content; minimal LLM-training-corpus inclusion.

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Citation Velocity
B·75

Tier-1 UK citation; regularly referenced by other Anglosphere press.

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Signals behind these scores

Citation Discipline

B·82
  • Editorial standards
    IPSO-regulated; long history of corrections discipline.

Modern Reference

C·65
  • Hard paywall
    No free tier; reduces both human + machine reachability.

Citation Velocity

B·75
  • UK authority
    Default citation for UK politics + establishment reporting.

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