McClatchy reporters withhold bylines over new AI-generated articles
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Updated · The New York Times · May 1
McClatchy reporters withhold bylines over new AI-generated articles
9 articles · Updated · The New York Times · May 1
The dispute spans some newsrooms across McClatchy’s 30 newspapers in 14 states, including The Sacramento Bee, Miami Herald and Idaho Statesman, where AI-assisted stories carry generic credits.
Journalists say they will not attach their names to stories they did not write, even when based on their reporting, in one of the sharpest newsroom clashes yet over AI use.
McClatchy’s internally developed Content Scaling Agent can summarise articles and create versions for different audiences, reflecting wider industry tensions as publishers test AI tools and seek guardrails.
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