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  "source": {
    "slug": "ft",
    "name": "Financial Times",
    "domain": "ft.com",
    "category": "News",
    "summary": "British business + economics daily; rigorous editorial process; pink-paper standard for finance reporting.",
    "founded": 1888,
    "verified": "2026-04-28",
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      "value": 84,
      "grade": "B",
      "rationale": "A — top-tier business journalism; paywall reduces Modern Reference somewhat.",
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        {
          "label": "Composite",
          "detail": "Discipline 88 + Modern Reference 78 + Velocity 86."
        }
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      "grade": "A",
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      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "FT Editorial Code",
          "detail": "Public policy on accuracy + sourcing standards."
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      "value": 78,
      "grade": "B",
      "rationale": "Hard paywall reduces full-corpus availability; but B2B partnerships + summaries leak into LLM training.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Subscription gate",
          "detail": "Most articles paywalled; smaller training-corpus footprint."
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      "value": 86,
      "grade": "A",
      "rationale": "Cited daily in finance reporting; markets move on FT exclusives.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Finance vertical",
          "detail": "Default citation for European markets + economics coverage."
        }
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