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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/status/731687243916529665

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It costs her money to post on Twitter?

It costs her time, at a minimum, which comes at the opportunity cost of other money-making ventures.

She'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 :)

Agreed, but brand doesn't put food on the table!

Ahhhh, yes, the 'giving exposure' argument.

Did you somehow misconstrue my post as an argument that she should not be paid?

Nope. You're arguing nonsense here.

This is the first time I've seen "do it for the exposure" in the wild (http://theoatmeal.com/comics/exposure). And you even called the other person disingenuous (albeit in jest). I'm impressed.

Looks 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?

It costs her money not work while at court.

Are you sure? Maybe her employers allowed it.

She's a freelancer, as are a lot of journalists. She said so herself: takes time away from paid projects.

To 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).

> Are you sure? Maybe her employers allowed it.

Or maybe we can just trust her.

https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/732215116465213440

Or maybe she was paid to write an article about the trial for Motherboard.

I think it cost her money to not be working while covering the case.

As 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).

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