Despite an ongoing flirtation with “journalism,” Facebook doesn’t need to pay reporters, according to its outgoing managing editor Dan Fletcher. "You guys are the reporters,"
Fletcher told an audience at the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University in Pullman, Wash., this week. "There is no more engaging content Facebook could produce than
you talking to your family and friends," Fletcher said, as reported by PBS.org’s MediaShift blog.