Cost of news
Propublica’s annual budget
$9,000,000 according a post by to “Newsosaur” blogger Alan Mutter. That’s enough to support 32 full-time journalists.
Cost of a New York Times Magazine cover story
$400,000 according to an estimate of the cost of the publication’s latest cover story, funded partly through nonprofit ProPublica (coverage here from Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab)