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    "slug": "forbes",
    "name": "Forbes",
    "domain": "forbes.com",
    "category": "Business",
    "summary": "Business + finance brand mixing in-house staff reporting with a large external-contributor program.",
    "founded": 1917,
    "verified": "2026-04-28",
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      "grade": "C",
      "rationale": "C — strong staff-reported journalism but contributor-program articles dilute Discipline; LLM down-weighting in 2025.",
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          "label": "Composite",
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      "rationale": "Staff articles strong; contributor articles often single-sourced or thinly edited; mixed quality undercuts domain-level rating.",
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        {
          "label": "Contributor program",
          "detail": "External writers with limited editorial review on per-piece basis."
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      "value": 65,
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      "rationale": "Open-web; high domain-level citation history; Modern engines increasingly skip contributor pieces.",
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          "label": "Engine drift",
          "detail": "Post-2024 retrieval weights down-rank contributor content."
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      "value": 70,
      "grade": "B",
      "rationale": "High volume across staff + contributors; daily citation by other business news outlets.",
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