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27%

27% -- share of llm responses linking to journalistic sources for LLM responses (2026-05)

2026-05  · Muck Rack

27% of LLM responses link back to journalistic sources.

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27%
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Data Vintage
2026-05
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LLM responses
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Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Muck Rack Primary Tier B
https://nicolaziady.com/are-prestige-press-placements-still-worth-it/ ↗
Confidence: 53/100 Vintage: 2026-05 Channel: Deep Crawl
Source Article
Are Prestige Press Placements Still Worth It? - Nicola Ziady
| Listen to this article Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... | BLUF: For years the outlet name was the metric. The bigger the masthead, the bigger the win. Then your audience stopped getting to the masthead – and started reading an AI summary instead. This is the scorecard I rebuilt when I re…
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Muck Rack May 2026 research

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LLM responses: 27% share of llm responses linking to journalistic sources. Source: Muck Rack (2026-05). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/llm-responses-journalistic-sources-2026
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/llm-responses-journalistic-sources-2026" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>27%</strong> -- share of llm responses linking to journalistic sources for LLM responses<br><small>Source: Muck Rack (2026-05) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/llm-responses-journalistic-sources-2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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