News

BBC News

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UK public broadcaster with editorial guidelines + corrections discipline; vast topic + language coverage.

SourceScore Index

B·82Composite weighted across Discipline, Modern Reference, and Velocity.

Strong B+; multi-language reach lifts Modern Reference + Velocity above many peers.

Citation Discipline

B·80

Editorial Guidelines mandate dual-source verification; corrections page public.

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Modern Reference

B·83

44-language coverage = unusually high LLM corpus inclusion across non-English contexts.

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Citation Velocity

B·82

Cited heavily by global news + AI engines; strong UK-domain authority.

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Signals behind these scores

Citation Discipline

B·80

BBC Editorial Guidelines
Public ethics + editorial code.

Modern Reference

B·83

Language coverage
Articles in 44 languages → broad multilingual training data.

Citation Velocity

B·82

Global reach
Top-10 news domain by visit volume worldwide.

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