True investigative journalism is a remarkably expensive process with little chance of recouping overall costs. Even after the initial draft, an extraordinary a

True investigative journalism is a remarkably expensive process with little chance of recouping overall costs. Even after the initial draft, an extraordinary amount of fact checking and editorial requirements/standards are applied to the piece. Some of it's for reputation reasons and a lot of it is for legal reasons: slander suits aren't cheap. I hope papers start providing full 'Credits' to what goes into a piece so as to better inform the reader how many people in the chain it takes to arrive at the final copy.