NE & others fund numerous leads 24-7. Tips range 50-100 and will skyrocket when a story unfolds.
The tips are to lots of service industry people: hair dressers, barbers, taxi & limo drivers, bellman, security cops, nannies, concierge, physical trainers, ER personnel, medical staff (plastic surgeons),secretaries, waiters, hotel desk clerks, neighbors, and the like.
The money will always be there for the scoop. Cheap surveillance technology makes the jobs even easier to track targets. Anyone with major political aspirations ought to know they will be under a looking glass.
So you believe unnamed sources from the NE?