By Erik Wemple
City Paper
WASHINGTON — The belt keeps tightening around the newsroom budget of the Washington Post. Following a stretch that featured the killing of the Sunday Source and Book World, newsroom administration on Tuesday announced perhaps a bigger no-brainer: Staffers at the paper will no longer get paid extra for doing chats and blogs on washingtonpost.com.
Thus comes to a halt one of the industry’s most luxurious gravy trains. Several years ago, when the Post started launching blogs like bottle rockets, a two-caste compensation system evolved. Big stars, like Marc Fisher and Joel Achenbach, got paid. Grunts on the Metro desk and elswhere didn’t.

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