After WikiLeaks and Snowden a future alliance between journalists, whistleblowers, and IT experts?

Polis Intern Jessica Di Paolo (@JessDiPaolo) reports on a gathering of investigative journalism at the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s Logan Symposium “The information age is actually a media age. We have war by media; censorship by media; demonology by media; retribution by media; diversion by media – a surreal assembly line of obedient clichés and false assumptions. Why are young journalists not taught to understand media agendas and to challenge the high claims and low purpose of fake objectivity?” (John Pilger, War by media and the triumph of propaganda)