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If you found Sarah's coverage of the trial useful, she is accepting payments on PayPal since she was doing it with her own money: https://twitter.com/sarahjeong
by davis 10y ago
If you found Sarah's coverage of the trial useful, she is accepting payments on PayPal since she was doing it with her own money:
https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/731687243916529665 https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/731687243916529665
- xyzzy4 10y agoIt costs her money to post on Twitter?
- cheald 10y agoIt costs her time, at a minimum, which comes at the opportunity cost of other money-making ventures.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- xenihn 10y agoShe's strengthening her personal brand and potentially gaining access to new clients for future work. I have absolutely no problem with her asking for donations, but let's not be disingenuous :)
- cheald 10y agoAgreed, but brand doesn't put food on the table!
- farcical_tinpot 10y agoAhhhh, yes, the 'giving exposure' argument.
- xenihn 10y agoDid you somehow misconstrue my post as an argument that she should not be paid?
- farcical_tinpot 10y agoNope. You're arguing nonsense here.
- Throwaway23412 10y agoThis is the first time I've seen "do it for the exposure" in the wild (http://theoatmeal.com/comics/exposure http://theoatmeal.com/comics/exposure). And you even called the other person disingenuous (albeit in jest). I'm impressed.
- xenihn 10y agoLooks like I missed the part where someone else was making money off her reporting and refusing to pay her, do you happen to have a link?
- teh 10y agoIt costs her money not work while at court.
- xyzzy4 10y agoAre you sure? Maybe her employers allowed it.
- phillmv 10y agoShe's a freelancer, as are a lot of journalists. She said so herself: takes time away from paid projects.
- dekhn 10y agoTo the doubters: I'd take her at her word because she's self-brand building and she has a lot to lose if somebody catches her in a trivial lie. I thought her tweets on the trial were absurd (in the literature sense).
- davis 10y ago> Are you sure? Maybe her employers allowed it. Or maybe we can just trust her. https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/732215116465213440 https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/732215116465213440
- xyzzy4 10y agoOr maybe she was paid to write an article about the trial for Motherboard.
- lallysingh 10y agoI think it cost her money to not be working while covering the case.
- phasmantistes 10y agoAs I understand it, she was taking unpaid leave from her day-job at Vice Motherboard (despite then producing full-length articles for Motherboard on the topic).