Great response and something I've been thinking a lot about recently. It is also the best argument for diversity in tech you can make because different people come with different experiences.

I would love if someone could better link journalists and hackers together. There are hackathons and data projects but I feel these are too cursory to tackle real big problems.

edit: upon more searching it looks like http://www.datakind.org/ is doing that just with NGOs instead of journalists