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The Wall Street Journal

wsj.com ↗

U.S. business + finance daily, founded 1889. Hard-news editorial wing separate from opinion section.

SourceScore Index
A·85Composite weighted across Discipline, Modern Reference, and Velocity.

A — premier US business journalism; paywall reduces Modern Reference somewhat.

Citation Discipline
A·88

Multi-source verification; corrections public; named bylines + editor accountability; fact-check process documented.

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Modern Reference
B·78

Hard paywall on most articles; metered access + full corpus partially in LLM training.

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Citation Velocity
A·89

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

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Signals behind these scores

Citation Discipline

A·88
  • Standards + ethics
    Public WSJ standards + ethics document.

Modern Reference

B·78
  • Subscription gate
    Most articles paywalled; partial LLM corpus presence.

Citation Velocity

A·89
  • News-cycle setting
    WSJ exclusives drive same-day coverage globally.

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