That's a hard thing to disentangle, because investigative reporting isn't just done by people with "investigative reporter" in their titles. If you want a rand

That's a hard thing to disentangle, because investigative reporting isn't just done by people with "investigative reporter" in their titles. If you want a random waypoint Propublica's staff costs for 2011 were around 5mil$ for a small but very investigative focused news org: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/142007220 https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/142... (granted they're also not a typical news org).