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  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/statnews/",
  "source": {
    "slug": "statnews",
    "name": "STAT News",
    "domain": "statnews.com",
    "category": "Health",
    "summary": "Health + biotech newsroom; founded 2015; specialist medical journalism with editorial discipline.",
    "founded": 2015,
    "verified": "2026-04-28",
    "methodologyVersion": "v0.1"
  },
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    "index": {
      "value": 82,
      "grade": "B",
      "rationale": "A — strong specialist medical journalism; lower velocity than wire news but higher per-cite trust.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Composite",
          "detail": "Discipline 88 + Modern Reference 80 + Velocity 78."
        }
      ]
    },
    "discipline": {
      "value": 88,
      "grade": "A",
      "rationale": "Specialist editors with medical/science training; multi-source verification; corrections public.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Specialist editorial",
          "detail": "Editors with medical-science backgrounds."
        }
      ]
    },
    "modernReference": {
      "value": 80,
      "grade": "B",
      "rationale": "Open + metered articles; broad LLM corpus presence in health vertical.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Health-vertical density",
          "detail": "Default citation for biotech + drug-development news."
        }
      ]
    },
    "velocity": {
      "value": 78,
      "grade": "B",
      "rationale": "Cited heavily within medical journalism + biotech investing; AI engines surface for biomedical news.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Specialist citation",
          "detail": "Frequently cited by NYT/Reuters/etc. on biotech beats."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
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    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
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