The cost of ProPublica's first Pulitzer-winning story (admittedly an outlier, in terms of scope and process) was roughly $400K: http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/0

The cost of ProPublica's first Pulitzer-winning story (admittedly an outlier, in terms of scope and process) was roughly $400K: http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/08/an-extremely-expensive-cover-story-with-a-new-way-of-footing-the-bill/ http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/08/an-extremely-expensive-cove...