{"id":5028,"date":"2013-03-10T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T02:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5028"},"modified":"2013-03-10T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T02:56:00","slug":"revenge-of-the-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5028","title":{"rendered":"Revenge of the sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2013\/03\/10\/revenge-of-the-sources\/\">Ezra Klein:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>I understand why a professional journalist like Nate Thayer would be frustrated at being asked to work for \u201cexposure\u201d rather than work for pay, though I think it\u2019s unprofessional to vent that frustration by publishing the e-mails and the name of the junior editor who made the request.<\/p>\n<p>(Brian Stauffer for The Washington Post\/)<\/p>\n<p>But behind this debate lurks an uncomfortable fact: The salaries of professional journalists are built upon our success in convincing experts of all kinds working for exposure rather than pay. Now those experts have found a way to work for exposure without going through professional journalists, creating a vast expansion in the quantity and quality of content editors can get for free.<br \/>\nCall it the revenge of our sources. For a very long time, we got them to work for nothing more than exposure \u2014 and sometimes, we didn\u2019t even give them that. Now they\u2019re getting more and more of us to do it.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ezra Klein: I understand why a professional journalist like Nate Thayer would be frustrated at being asked to work for \u201cexposure\u201d rather than work for pay, though I think it\u2019s unprofessional to vent that frustration by publishing the e-mails and the name of the junior editor who made the request. (Brian Stauffer for The Washington [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}