"Australia is now 39th in Reporters Sans Frontiers' World Press Freedom Index, a staggering decline ..." is how Rebecca Ananian-Welsh and Jason Bosland begin their article in The Conversation, titled Journalists must be protected in police investigations.  Here's our five point plan for reform.  In cases of no self-interest, journalists and whistleblowers are often attempting to report on events which our society needs to know about.  As a society, we should be listening to and protecting those individuals.