Source selection & attribution
A curated directory of leading news publishers, wire services, and aggregators worldwide. citations.press attributes every indexed fact to its original publication — this list reflects the global news ecosystem we reference, not live citation counts.
We are the index, not the claimant
Every citation on citations.press links back to a named publication. We attribute facts to their original source — attribution to the original publication is non-negotiable.
How sources enter the pipeline
We index articles from established news outlets that publish verifiable, attributed reporting. Sources enter through two tiers:
Full-text RSS
Outlets that provide complete article bodies in their feeds — for example Parade and Ars Technica.
Discover and fetch
RSS for discovery, then a single fetch of the article page — for example BBC, NPR, and ABC via sitemap crawl.
We do not re-fetch BBC article pages once cached — repeat fetches can degrade content quality. Already-cached URLs are skipped on subsequent ingest runs.
What we do not index
- Paywalled or blocked outlets where we cannot reliably access article text — for example NYT, Reuters, WSJ, and The Guardian.
- Stale or unreliable feeds.
- Content without a named speaker and at least one numeric metric — our editorial criteria require both.
Many outlets in the directory above appear as attribution references even when we cannot yet ingest them at scale.
Rules for every indexed fact
Every citation names the original outlet and links to the source URL.
The supporting quote is verbatim from the cached article — not paraphrased by a model.
The speaker (person) and their role are recorded where stated in the source.
When you cite material from citations.press, attribute both our index and the original publication.
Brand press releases
Companies may submit press releases via our submission form. Extracted facts enter the same editorial queue as news articles. Approved brand citations are labelled Brand submission on the site and in structured data — readers and machines must be able to distinguish them from third-party journalism.
Corrections. If you believe we have misrepresented a source, see our corrections policy.
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