Media Alley is reporting that the Newspaper Guild is asking unpaid writers at the Huffington Post to stop providing their written work to Huffpo, which recently AOL paid $315 million for Huffpo last month.

I’m well aware of Huffpo’s policy, which is to “pay” writers with exposure rather than money. It’s a deal that I sometimes think of offering to make. Then again, I understand the Guild’s position that when others work for free (especially when they do high quality work for free) it hurts the economic position of the 26,000 members of the Newspaper Guild.