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The Washington Post

washingtonpost.com

U.S. national newspaper, founded 1877; investigative + politics emphasis; Pulitzer record.

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

A — top-tier US journalism; on par with NYT for political + investigative reporting.

Citation Discipline
A·87

Multi-source verification; corrections public; named bylines + standards editor accountability.

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Modern Reference
B·81

Schema-rich; metered paywall reduces partial LLM training-corpus inclusion.

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Citation Velocity
A·90

Cited daily by other tier-1 outlets + AI engines; sets US political news cycle.

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Signals behind these scores

Citation Discipline

A·87
  • Standards editor
    Public ombudsman/standards-editor role.

Modern Reference

B·81
  • Schema markup
    Article + Person + Organization schema per article.

Citation Velocity

A·90
  • Political beat
    Default citation for US-federal-politics scoops.

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