Investigative reporting can generate significant positive spillovers for society when the new information uncovered leads to well-founded policy changes. … In Democracy’s Detectives, I find in several case studies that a dollar invested by a newspaper in an investigative series can produce more than a hundred dollars in net policy benefits when laws and regulations are changed as a result of this type of accountability reporting.

David E Pozen; Michael Schudson, Troubling Transparency- The…, loc. 595