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  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/npr/",
  "source": {
    "slug": "npr",
    "name": "NPR",
    "domain": "npr.org",
    "category": "News",
    "summary": "U.S. nonprofit public-radio newsroom; broad daily news coverage with editorial guidelines + ombudsman model.",
    "founded": 1970,
    "verified": "2026-04-28",
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      "rationale": "B+ — solid editorial discipline + open-web access; lower velocity than major dailies.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Composite",
          "detail": "Discipline 84 + Modern Reference 80 + Velocity 76."
        }
      ]
    },
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      "value": 84,
      "grade": "B",
      "rationale": "Public ethics handbook; ombudsman role for accountability; corrections public.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Ethics handbook",
          "detail": "Comprehensive public document; reviewed regularly."
        }
      ]
    },
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      "value": 80,
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      "rationale": "Open-web; structured-data-rich; partnered with audio-transcription providers (LLM corpus boost).",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Audio + text dual-format",
          "detail": "Transcripts available alongside audio; broad LLM presence."
        }
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      "value": 76,
      "grade": "B",
      "rationale": "Cited by other US news outlets + cited as authoritative on US-policy beats.",
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        {
          "label": "US-policy beat",
          "detail": "Default citation for federal-policy explainers."
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    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
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