Gannett, publisher of USA Today and hundreds of local newspapers, will stop using the Associated Press’ content starting next week, a significant blow to the not-for-profit wire service collective that still relies heavily on its premium memberships.
The largest newspaper chain in the United States has an ongoing business relationship with Metric Media, a company linked to a sprawling network of over a thousand “pink slime” publications — sites that profess to be local but have no local staff and do not disclose funding they’ve received from political sources.
Staff writers at Reviewed suspect that management published stories written by AI under the names of non-existent writers. Parent company Gannett denies it.
The USA Today parent is sifting through nearly 1,000 applications for reporting jobs covering the singers. Responses have come from Emmy-award-winning journalists, TikTok influencers and a reporter working at the White House.
The country’s largest newspaper chain said that Google’s power over ad technology has contributed to the decline of local news.
The union representing the company’s newsroom employees criticized the CEO for cutting jobs and hurting local journalism.