diff --git a/src/Text/Pandoc/Class.hs b/src/Text/Pandoc/Class.hs
index 91731d396..14a0b8044 100644
--- a/src/Text/Pandoc/Class.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Pandoc/Class.hs
@@ -93,15 +93,16 @@ import Network.URI ( escapeURIString, nonStrictRelativeTo,
                      unEscapeString, parseURIReference, isAllowedInURI,
                      parseURI, URI(..) )
 import qualified Data.Time.LocalTime as IO (getCurrentTimeZone)
-import Text.Pandoc.MediaBag (MediaBag, lookupMedia, extractMediaBag,
-                             mediaDirectory)
+import Text.Pandoc.MediaBag (MediaBag, lookupMedia, mediaDirectory)
 import Text.Pandoc.Walk (walkM, walk)
 import qualified Text.Pandoc.MediaBag as MB
 import qualified Data.ByteString as B
 import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as BL
 import qualified System.Environment as IO (lookupEnv)
 import System.FilePath.Glob (match, compile)
-import System.FilePath ((</>), (<.>), takeExtension, dropExtension, isRelative)
+import System.Directory (createDirectoryIfMissing)
+import System.FilePath ((</>), (<.>), takeDirectory,
+         takeExtension, dropExtension, isRelative, normalise)
 import qualified System.FilePath.Glob as IO (glob)
 import qualified System.Directory as IO (getModificationTime)
 import Control.Monad as M (fail)
@@ -387,9 +388,23 @@ extractMedia dir d = do
   case [fp | (fp, _, _) <- mediaDirectory media] of
         []  -> return d
         fps -> do
-          liftIO $ extractMediaBag True dir media
+          mapM_ (writeMedia dir media) fps
           return $ walk (adjustImagePath dir fps) d
 
+writeMedia :: FilePath -> MediaBag -> FilePath -> PandocIO ()
+writeMedia dir mediabag subpath = do
+  -- we join and split to convert a/b/c to a\b\c on Windows;
+  -- in zip containers all paths use /
+  let fullpath = dir </> normalise subpath
+  let mbcontents = lookupMedia subpath mediabag
+  case mbcontents of
+       Nothing -> throwError $ PandocResourceNotFound subpath
+       Just (_, bs) -> do
+         report $ Extracting fullpath
+         liftIO $ do
+           createDirectoryIfMissing True $ takeDirectory fullpath
+           BL.writeFile fullpath bs
+
 adjustImagePath :: FilePath -> [FilePath] -> Inline -> Inline
 adjustImagePath dir paths (Image attr lab (src, tit))
    | src `elem` paths = Image attr lab (dir ++ "/" ++ src, tit)
diff --git a/src/Text/Pandoc/Logging.hs b/src/Text/Pandoc/Logging.hs
index 7afce9f5f..da8c775f6 100644
--- a/src/Text/Pandoc/Logging.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Pandoc/Logging.hs
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ data LogMessage =
   | CouldNotConvertTeXMath String String
   | CouldNotParseCSS String
   | Fetching String
+  | Extracting String
   | NoTitleElement String
   | NoLangSpecified
   | CouldNotHighlight String
@@ -178,6 +179,8 @@ instance ToJSON LogMessage where
            ["message" .= Text.pack msg]
       Fetching fp ->
            ["path" .= Text.pack fp]
+      Extracting fp ->
+           ["path" .= Text.pack fp]
       NoTitleElement fallback ->
            ["fallback" .= Text.pack fallback]
       NoLangSpecified -> []
@@ -248,6 +251,8 @@ showLogMessage msg =
          "Could not parse CSS" ++ if null m then "" else (':':'\n':m)
        Fetching fp ->
          "Fetching " ++ fp ++ "..."
+       Extracting fp ->
+         "Extracting " ++ fp ++ "..."
        NoTitleElement fallback ->
          "This document format requires a nonempty <title> element.\n" ++
          "Please specify either 'title' or 'pagetitle' in the metadata.\n" ++
@@ -282,6 +287,7 @@ messageVerbosity msg =
        CouldNotConvertTeXMath{}     -> WARNING
        CouldNotParseCSS{}           -> WARNING
        Fetching{}                   -> INFO
+       Extracting{}                 -> INFO
        NoTitleElement{}             -> WARNING
        NoLangSpecified              -> INFO
        CouldNotHighlight{}          -> WARNING
diff --git a/src/Text/Pandoc/MediaBag.hs b/src/Text/Pandoc/MediaBag.hs
index 980511acc..d8d6da345 100644
--- a/src/Text/Pandoc/MediaBag.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Pandoc/MediaBag.hs
@@ -35,21 +35,15 @@ module Text.Pandoc.MediaBag (
                      lookupMedia,
                      insertMedia,
                      mediaDirectory,
-                     extractMediaBag
                      ) where
-import Control.Monad (when)
-import Control.Monad.Trans (MonadIO (..))
 import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as BL
 import Data.Data (Data)
 import qualified Data.Map as M
 import Data.Maybe (fromMaybe)
 import Data.Typeable (Typeable)
-import System.Directory (createDirectoryIfMissing)
 import System.FilePath
 import qualified System.FilePath.Posix as Posix
-import System.IO (stderr)
 import Text.Pandoc.MIME (MimeType, getMimeTypeDef)
-import qualified Text.Pandoc.UTF8 as UTF8
 
 -- | A container for a collection of binary resources, with names and
 -- mime types.  Note that a 'MediaBag' is a Monoid, so 'mempty'
@@ -87,28 +81,3 @@ mediaDirectory :: MediaBag -> [(String, MimeType, Int)]
 mediaDirectory (MediaBag mediamap) =
   M.foldWithKey (\fp (mime,contents) ->
       (((Posix.joinPath fp), mime, fromIntegral $ BL.length contents):)) [] mediamap
-
--- | Extract contents of MediaBag to a given directory.  Print informational
--- messages if 'verbose' is true.
--- TODO: eventually we may want to put this into PandocMonad
--- In PandocPure, it could write to the fake file system...
-extractMediaBag :: MonadIO m
-                => Bool
-                -> FilePath
-                -> MediaBag
-                -> m ()
-extractMediaBag verbose dir (MediaBag mediamap) = liftIO $ do
-  sequence_ $ M.foldWithKey
-     (\fp (_ ,contents) ->
-        ((writeMedia verbose dir (Posix.joinPath fp, contents)):)) [] mediamap
-
-writeMedia :: Bool -> FilePath -> (FilePath, BL.ByteString) -> IO ()
-writeMedia verbose dir (subpath, bs) = do
-  -- we join and split to convert a/b/c to a\b\c on Windows;
-  -- in zip containers all paths use /
-  let fullpath = dir </> normalise subpath
-  createDirectoryIfMissing True $ takeDirectory fullpath
-  when verbose $ UTF8.hPutStrLn stderr $ "pandoc: extracting " ++ fullpath
-  BL.writeFile fullpath bs
-
-