According to an article on FoxNews.com, the 26,000-member national Newspaper Guild is taking a stand against the Huffington Post for not paying thousands of its writers. The union is asking all of its members not to share their work with the HuffPo to show their support for paid journalism. In response to the union, spokesman for HuffPo, Mario Ruiz, said that he also thought professional journalists should get paid, but also said that most of the writers they aren't paying are not considered professional; they are community bloggers who come from all over the place. Ruiz also said that HuffPo does have a staff of 160 full-time editors and reporters that it pays. Is HuffPo wrong for allowing bloggers to contribute free information or are the bloggers wrong for contributing information without pay? If a single video can sell for $150 to $1,000, HuffPo is saving a ton of money if they have 3,000 regular bloggers that they're not paying.
Kaleigh Robichaud
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