The word "whistleblowers" is correct and usable in written English.
It can refer to people who inform authorities or the public about illegal or immoral activity taking place in organizations. For example, "The whistleblowers' testimony was instrumental in uncovering the company's illegal activities."
There will even be "Clear Rules On Whistleblowing"—though not until September, when a "Draft Inter-Institutional Agreement on Whistleblowers" will be ready.
We're largely dependent on whistleblowers – normally disillusioned chuggers – to enlighten us, as in last year's investigation by Dispatches.
"Similar provisions in the TPP that will prevent whistleblowers and journalists from accessing or 'disclosing' trade secrets through a computer system," Sutton says.
Snowden saw what happened to other whistleblowers, and behaved accordingly.
"The US government, just as they did with other whistleblowers, immediately and predictably destroyed any possibility of a fair trial at home, openly declaring me guilty of treason and that the disclosure of secret, criminal, and even unconstitutional acts is an unforgivable crime.
"As a result, it would be dangerous, liberal, uncensored, and it would be a great place for freedom fighters, democratic dissidents and whistleblowers to go, as well as criminals, child pornographers and terrorists.
But the emphasis can't be only on prosecuting those malefactors, or protecting the whistleblowers who reveal their identities.
The scale of the alleged corruption, revealed by parliamentary inquiries, court cases, secret police files and whistleblowers, is such as to make David Cameron's alleged suppers-for-sale predicament look trivial.
There were a record 278 nominations this year, 19 more than ever before – including US whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and Pope Francis.
Journalists reporting on the federal government's asylum-seeker policies have been repeatedly referred to the police in attempts to uncover confidential sources and whistleblowers, a Guardian Australia investigation can reveal.
The war on whistleblowers has now escalated to disrupting journalists' communications.
