Doubtful. Journalists are not particularly savvy at monetizing their work beyond the normal publication channels. The only news org that I can think of that has organized anything remotely like that is ProPublica and its Data Store:
It publishes for free the public data that it has collated. For datasets in which they've put significant amount of work wrangling and vetting it, they charge fees. I don't know how much money they've recouped from that but them being a non-profit, if it were enough to change the game, we'd probably hear about it at some point.
