Speaking of working together toward common goals, a colleague of mine (Jay Hartwell, http://www.midweek.com/jay-hartwell-ka-leo-journalists/) thought I might be interested in these links about journalists collaborating elsewhere, so he shared them on a backchannel:

MediaShift: Journalists and Academics Collaborating? It’s Paying Off for Investigative Reports in Canada, http://mediashift.org/2016/07/journalists-academics-collaborating-its-paying-off-investigative-reports-canada/ 

and investigative journalists working together, across organizations, in the Caribbean:
http://blog.wan-ifra.org/2016/06/30/investigative-journalism-in-the-caribbean-self-censorship-part-2

Those are just a couple of more examples of journalists competing together against common enemies, such as corruption and crime, instead of tearing each other down to get an "EXCLUSIVE"