McClatchy Guts Newsrooms Nationwide Months After Controversial Push to AI

McClatchy Media hit its newsrooms nationwide with significant layoffs on Thursday, with some newspapers gutted by a third of their staff. The layoffs came just months after the company's push into AI with a controversial editorial tool that led to widespread revolt among staffers, as previously reported by TheWrap. The 168-year-old newspaper owner houses Pulitzer Prize-winning local outlets like the Bee, the Miami Herald and the Charlotte Observer, among many others. In an internal memo to staff first shared publicly by the New York Times' Katie Robertson, management said that an internal . . .