Politicians have been leaking secrets to journalists as long as newspapers have existed. But it's getting more difficult thanks to surveillance technology.
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Whistleblowing on doping can and does have life-altering implications for athletes – new research.
Adopting best practices like making it easier for staffers to blow the whistle when they observe wrongdoing can help.
Chelsea Manning's disclosures on the Iraq war were major milestones in the emergence of the digital age whistleblower.
Targeting Witness K and his lawyer in the Timor-Leste bugging case shows a government increasingly hostile to the media.
The government has a lot of work to do on it's proposed foreign influence and official secrets laws to ensure they don't prosecute whistleblowers.
Accounts and other tax professionals might face some awkward conflicts of interest thanks to the federal government's proposed whistleblower laws.
Information is valuable and can be risky.
The mere existence of mechanisms to report incidents at work is not enough – whistleblowers have to believe they'll be believed.
Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has been killed in Malta – but we must accept that corruption is a problem for all of Europe.
We need to reform whistleblower protections if we want them to help maintain the integrity of government, business and non-profits.
Australian authorities are considering offering financial incentives for would-be whistleblowers to motivate them to come forward with high quality information.
It's not a new phenomenon that scientists who challenge the orthodoxy or policy positions suffer career ramifications.
The US president's attack on confidential sources is one of many legal and technological threats to public interest journalism, as a new report shows
In the wake of the Flint water crisis and with a new notably anti-science president, U.S. scientists are reevaluating how to navigate the tension between speaking out and a fear of losing research funding.
Crucially, President Obama has commuted Manning's sentence without pardoning her.
The announcement of Chelsea Manning's commutation raises questions regarding the future of other high-profile leakers, like Julian Assange and Edward Snowden.
The protection of confidential journalistic sources in public life is vital. We must not lose it.
Members of House Standing Committee on Economics should be asking the directors of Australia's Big Four banks (not the CEOs) different questions, if they really want the right answers.
Businesses are trying to set up procedures to help whistleblowers, but better guidance, incentives and regulation are still needed, new research finds.
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Professor of Public Policy & Law, Centre for Governance & Public Policy, Griffith University
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Professor in Media and Communication, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Associate Lecturer, ANU College of Law – Migration Law Program, Australian National University
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Media Specialist, Department of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Telecommunications Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
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Honorary professorial fellow, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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Distinguished Writer In Residence, Arthur Carter Journalism Institute, New York University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security, Charles Sturt University
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Pat McConnell is a Friend of The Conversation.
Visiting Fellow, Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre, Macquarie University
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Lecturer in law, CQUniversity Australia
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Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia
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Professor of Journalism and Social Media, Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University, Griffith University
