Maybe in your country. In Norway it's normal. The (few) times I've been interviewed I've gotten the full story by mail before publishing or a phone call. I wor

Maybe in your country. In Norway it's normal. The (few) times I've been interviewed I've gotten the full story by mail before publishing or a phone call. I work for a student newspaper now, and last week we even implemented a feature to automate the sending of unpublished articles to our sources.