This is one of the reasons I gladly pay for a LWN subscription. I'd love to see more journalism like that, where insiders are paid a small fee to write articles

This is one of the reasons I gladly pay for a LWN subscription. I'd love to see more journalism like that, where insiders are paid a small fee to write articles about subjects they're already experts on. But then again, my interests are much less in world events or pop culture, and much more in science and engineering, where expertise is more easily measured.