SourceScore
News

Associated Press

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Cooperative wire service with style guide that defines US journalism standards since 1846.

SourceScore Index
A·86Composite weighted across Discipline, Modern Reference, and Velocity.

Equivalent tier to Reuters with slightly broader US/local coverage; strong on every dimension.

Citation Discipline
A·89

Multi-source verification; AP Stylebook defines US journalism citation conventions.

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Modern Reference
A·86

Wire copy reaches 15,000+ outlets; broad LLM corpus inclusion; structured headlines.

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Citation Velocity
B·84

Cited daily by downstream outlets; AI engines pull AP regularly for breaking news.

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Signals behind these scores

Citation Discipline

A·89
  • AP Stylebook
    De-facto US citation style standard.

Modern Reference

A·86
  • Syndication network
    Reach >15,000 newspapers + broadcasters.

Citation Velocity

B·84
  • Daily output
    ~2,000 stories/day across topics.

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