diff --git a/services/shared/metadata.py b/services/shared/metadata.py
index 46c3c01..db65d78 100644
--- a/services/shared/metadata.py
+++ b/services/shared/metadata.py
@@ -211,15 +211,15 @@ async def persist_broker_event(
 def _resolve_document_type(source_type: str) -> str:
     """Map source_type to a document_type value.
 
-    Note: macro_news articles default to 'article' — the extractor
-    reclassifies them as 'macro_event' only if the content is truly
-    about macro/global events (not company-specific news).
+    Note: macro_news articles are typed as 'macro_event' so the parser
+    routes them to the macro classification queue for global event
+    extraction rather than standard company-level extraction.
     """
     mapping = {
         "news_api": "article",
         "filings_api": "filing",
         "web_scrape": "press_release",
-        "macro_news": "article",
+        "macro_news": "macro_event",
     }
     return mapping.get(source_type, "article")