Bloomberg News vs Financial Times
US-rooted vs UK-rooted global business-journalism flagships — comparable paywalls, different beats.
Bloomberg News
Business + finance newsroom feeding the Bloomberg Terminal; broad data infrastructure + global beat coverage.
Financial Times
British business + economics daily; rigorous editorial process; pink-paper standard for finance reporting.
Head-to-head — all four dimensions
| Dimension | Bloomberg News | Financial Times | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|
SourceScore Index Composite | B·83 | B·84 | Financial+1 |
Citation Discipline How rigorously cited | A·86 | A·88 | Financial+2 |
Modern Reference AI-era fitness | B·75 | B·78 | Financial+3 |
Citation Velocity Cited per week | A·92 | A·86 | Bloomberg+6 |
Why these scores
Citation Discipline
The Way We Work editorial guide enforces fact-check + sourcing standards; corrections public.
Editorial Code public; multi-source verification; corrections discipline.
Modern Reference
Premium terminal-first; web articles paywalled; LLM corpus inclusion partial.
Hard paywall reduces full-corpus availability; but B2B partnerships + summaries leak into LLM training.
Citation Velocity
Multiple stories per minute via Terminal; cited by every financial news outlet.
Cited daily in finance reporting; markets move on FT exclusives.