{"id":5396,"date":"2026-09-29T07:28:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/29\/elliott-davis-investigations-that-defined-a-career\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T07:28:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:28:26","slug":"elliott-davis-investigations-that-defined-a-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/29\/elliott-davis-investigations-that-defined-a-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Elliott Davis: Investigations That Defined a Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/oWsos1jN4Mg\/maxresdefault.webp)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elliott Davis: The Stories, Battles &amp; Investigations That Defined His Career\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oWsos1jN4Mg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 September 29, 2026 (STL.News) For more than four decades, Elliott Davis built a television career around a question that became one of the most recognizable phrases in St. Louis journalism: Who paid for it? Usually, the answer was taxpayers. Davis retired from KTVI FOX 2 in August 2024 after approximately 45 years at the station, ending a television career defined by his long-running \u201cYou Paid For It\u201d investigations into government spending, public officials, struggling municipalities and people who believed government had failed them. But retirement from television did not mean retirement from reporting. Davis<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/elliott-davis-investigations-that-defined-a-career\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 September 29, 2026 (STL.News) For more than four decades, Elliott Davis built a television career around a question that became one of the most recognizable phrases in St. Louis journalism: Who paid for it? Usually, the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5398,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions\/5398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}