Buzzfeed has an investigative journalism arm[0] that its built over the last ~7 years. They were a 2018 Pulitzer finalist[1].

I assume their clickbait subsidizes their investigative journalism, a business model that gives me hope given the importance of investigative journalism. Unfortunately that hope is tempered by the recent round of layoffs.

[0] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/investigations [1] https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/staff-buzzfeed-news

At the moment I write this, the #1 item on the HN front page is a BuzzFeed News investigative piece[1], "One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Working with the FBI".

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19057643

It's been about 5 years since I last read McClatchy, but assuming they haven't changed much, your statement is ridiculous. They were one of the few major newspapers in the US to still do investigations. It was the only US based newspaper I would read because it was the only major paper out there to provide different perspectives on many events at the time (e.g. Guantanamo Bay). They weren't opinion pieces, but actual journalists going out and publishing things no one else was looking into.

That isn't true.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/investigations

https://www.vice.com/en_us/topic/investigative-journalism

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/investigations/

It took less than a minute to find this: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/investigations/

Buzzfeed have one of the best investigative bureaus in the world.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/investigations