Profile for Reporters
Finance: $1,000-$100,000 depending on how big the story is.
Time and Effort: Hours to weeks - sometimes years of effort - rarely much of it dedicated to technology.
Group Size: 1 - but their may be many competing reporters on a story.
Other resources: Lots of good research material, money to pay people for information, friends with points of view to push, people they have done previous stories on, etc.
Reporters are often quite good at getting information - usually by human means - usually from willing sources.