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TheWrap reports today on how a McClatchy corporate executive spoke about reporters with practical and ethical concerns about the company’s new AI article-generating tool. At the Sacramento Bee, unionized journalists are proudly “defiant” because we believe this tool compromises our integrity.

Screenshot of text: ““Journalists who embrace and experiment with this tool are going to win,” Nelson told the group, according to multiple people familiar with the meeting. “Journalists who are defiant will fall behind. Bottom line: We need more stories and we need more inventory.”” The sentence “Journalists who are defiant will fall behind” is underlined in blue

Elk Grove is spending up to $350,000 per bed to build a new small homeless shelter. The amount per bed is nearly triple the amount of the average cost per shelter bed for eight other Sacramento County shelters. With @camryndadey.bsky.social www.sacbee.com/community/el...

Should Elk Grove spend $350K a bed for homeless shelter over permanent housing?

The amount per bed is nearly triple the amount of the average cost per shelter bed for eight other Sacramento County shelters.

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About 60% of The Sacramento Bee’s reporters and photojournalists are white. But if you look at the pool of local reporters whose wages are so low they qualify for low-income housing, the ratio is flipped: 63% are people of color. Management offered a deal that would leave most of them low-income.

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McClatchy wants you to invest in a Sacramento Bee subscription, but the company doesn’t want to invest in its reporters. Under management’s latest offer, seven local journalists would still make salaries low enough to qualify them for low-income housing.

McClatchy wants you to invest in a Sacramento Bee subscription, but the company doesn’t want to invest in its reporters. Under management’s latest offer, seven local journalists would still make salaries low enough to qualify them for low-income housing.

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A shooting Wednesday at a Butte County faith-based elementary school critically wounded two kindergarteners. The shooter appeared to target the campus before fatally shooting himself. Our reporters are on the ground in Oroville reporting the aftermath of the shooting. Here’s our latest coverage.

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In honor of Native American Heritage Day, I would like to spotlight some of my Indigenous Affairs coverage at the Sac Bee. (This week was also my one year bee-versary! 🐝 🫶🏼). A 🧵: