Back in October 2021, the Miami Herald joined a wave of news outlets experimenting with artificial intelligence when it introduced a new writer to its real estate beat: the Miami Herald Bot.

Over the next two years, the bot authored hundreds of stories for Miami's daily newspaper of record, covering real estate sales, storm updates, and even dabbling in food reporting, before vanishing from the website in late 2023. It rose again like a Phoenix from the ashes in August 2024 (well, sorta), when a new byline appeared: the Miami Herald Hurricane Bot, which has since published dozens of storm-related stories for the paper.

But while the bots have churned out copy left and right for the paper, it appears the Herald is looking for an, erm, human touch.

In late July, McClatchy Media

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