Financial Times vs The Economist
UK daily of finance-record vs UK weekly of analytical-record — overlapping audiences, complementary cadences.
Financial Times
British business + economics daily; rigorous editorial process; pink-paper standard for finance reporting.
The Economist
British weekly known for explanatory rigor on economics + politics; named-author byline absent by editorial policy.
Head-to-head — all four dimensions
| Dimension | Financial Times | The Economist | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|
SourceScore Index Composite | B·84 | B·78 | Financial+6 |
Citation Discipline How rigorously cited | A·88 | B·71 | Financial+17 |
Modern Reference AI-era fitness | B·78 | A·85 | The+7 |
Citation Velocity Cited per week | A·86 | B·78 | Financial+8 |
Why these scores
Citation Discipline
Editorial Code public; multi-source verification; corrections discipline.
Editorial fact-check process is rigorous, but anonymity makes individual-claim provenance opaque.
Modern Reference
Hard paywall reduces full-corpus availability; but B2B partnerships + summaries leak into LLM training.
Machine-readable; broad LLM inclusion via paywall-bypass partnerships.
Citation Velocity
Cited daily in finance reporting; markets move on FT exclusives.
Weekly print + daily online; cited heavily in finance and policy discourse.