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Amazon plans to hire more than 300,000 U.S. workers for holiday season

publishers 26articles 26first reported 20 Oct, 18:28 UTCdeveloping since 21 Oct · 8 editions

Amazon plans to recruit more than 300,000 U.S. workers for the holiday shopping season, its first increase in seasonal hiring in three years, according to Reuters. The company said the jobs will come with higher pay and expanded benefits.

The hiring includes more than 6,000 positions in the Houston area and about 8,000 in metro Detroit. MLive reported that Amazon has more than 12,500 job openings across Michigan.

HOW THIS STORY WAS MADE

Written from 8 articles, headlines and summaries only; 8 independent newsrooms once syndicated copies count as one; this version written 12 h after the record first saw the story; the editor revised it.

Publishers
26
Source articles
26
Given to the writer
8, headlines and summaries only
Independent newsrooms
8
This version written
12 h after the record first saw the story
Second model (editor)
revised
Publication gate
passed
Human review
none

WHAT THE EDITOR DID

The second model checked the writer's draft against the same sources and changed it before publication. Struck words were in the draft; underlined words are its corrections.

WHAT IT FLAGGED editor revise: Delete the unsupported commentary about whether the statewide and metro Detroit figures overlap. - "though the extent to which that figure overlaps with the Detroit seasonal positions was not specified": This is commentary about what the source material does not specify rather than a sourced news claim.

THE DRAFT AND THE CHANGES

Amazon plans to hire more than 300,000 U.S. workers for holiday season

Amazon plans to recruit more than 300,000 U.S. workers for the holiday shopping season, its first increase in seasonal hiring in three years, according to Reuters. The company said the jobs will come with higher pay and expanded benefits. The hiring includes more than 6,000 positions in the Houston area and about 8,000 in metro Detroit. MLive reported that Amazon has more than 12,500 job openings across Michigan, though the extent to which that figure overlaps with the Detroit seasonal positions was not specified.Michigan.

Written by a language model from the sources above, then checked by a second model that may only cut, attribute or correct. How it works →

NAMED IN THE COVERAGE

OUTLETS CARRYING THE STORY, RUN BY RUN

0 19 38 22 Oct 23 Oct 24 Oct 25 Oct 26 Oct 27 Oct 28 Oct 21 Oct 00:17 UTC · Amazon plans more than 300,000 U.S. holiday hires 21 Oct 06:15 UTC · Amazon plans to hire more than 300,000 U.S. workers for holiday season 21 Oct 12:16 UTC · Amazon plans to hire more than 300,000 U.S. workers for holiday season 22 Oct 00:17 UTC · Amazon plans more than 300,000 U.S. holiday hires

WHAT HELD, WHAT CAME LATER

From the first reports to the latest

  • Nothing ran from the first third of the coverage to the last.

Entered the story later

  • Nothing new took hold after the first third.

Figures reported with different numbers

  • seasonal workers: 1,500 (1 from 20 Oct 23:30) → 300,000 (1 from 21 Oct 00:45) → 1,400 (1 from 21 Oct 16:30) → 9,000 (1 from 21 Oct 21:45) → 2,000 (1 from 22 Oct 13:45)

Matched by pattern, not read: a different number can be a correction, a rising count, or two different counts.

HOW THIS STORY DEVELOPED: EVERY HEADLINE, EVERY OUTLET →