In financial journalism, estimating the value of these and other Trump properties has become a cottage industry.
The US bureau of investigative journalism estimated more than a thousand civilians have been killed in drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, including dozens of children.
Just before most reporters arrived in the Sunshine State, journalism professor Jeff Jarvis estimated that news organizations would drop around $60 million for the 15,000 journalists on hand in Tampa and Charlotte combined, a lot of zeroes for an industry that shed nearly 40,000 newspaper jobs over the last five years.
Rick Edmonds, a scholar at the Poynter Institute, a journalism training center in Florida, estimated last month that newspapers have reduced spending on journalism by $1.6 billion a year over the past several years.
Jan Schaffer of J-Lab, a journalism think-tank at American University in Washington, DC, estimates that American foundations have donated at least $250m to non-profit journalism ventures since 2005.Many of these, such as the Texas Tribune, cover state politics.
The BBC is estimated to invest about £460m in journalism and editorial across TV, radio and online a year.
A report in January by the nonprofit journalism organization ProPublica, for example, noted that the Environmental Protection Agency had recently doubled its estimates for the amount of methane that is vented or lost from natural gas distribution lines.
The journalism industry has shrunk considerably over the past decade, with a study conducted in 2010 estimating a 27%to33%3% reduction in paid positions.
The report estimates that newspaper publishers, in print and online, invest about £1.2bn a year in original journalism and editorial.
As the annual State of News Media study by the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism shows, only an estimated $141 million (not including public broadcasting) of philanthropic support has gone into non-profit journalism efforts in the last four years.
The London-based Bureau for Investigative Journalism estimates that drones have killed between 23 and 105 people in Somalia.
