All that shows is that the NYT does some very expensive things. It doesn't prove that all investigative journalism costs that much. Many useful investigations a

All that shows is that the NYT does some very expensive things. It doesn't prove that all investigative journalism costs that much. Many useful investigations are essentially a series of FOIAs and working through source documents, don't require a year of work and don't require animated hand-coded graphics. Newspapers also have to churn out content or else their subs will cancel. That's inherent to any form of recurring subscription journalism.