McClatchy News is experimenting with AI. Union reporters have questions
How comfortable are you with AI in your news?
The Tacoma News Tribune, Tri-City Herald, Bellingham Herald, the Olympian. For over a century all of these local papers have brought in-depth reporting and local news to their communities.
But new policies instituted by publisher McClatchy Media have left reporters at the papers worried that the company is adopting artificial intelligence tools for efficiency’s sake, at the cost of accurate information.
Union members from the Idaho and Washington State Newsguild, a group of five McClatchy owned papers in the region (that includes the four…
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