It is likely mav is not aware of what press credentials are.
Press credentials indicate a person is actually writing for a news
source to a news event handler. They do not say a person is employed by,
or specifically represents, the news source. The primary purpose is to
allow news event handlers to control both who attends news events and
what messages the attendees recieve.
For example, I recently requested to attend a lunch speaking by a member
of the Fed here in Vancouver. Because I do not have press credentials
with Wikinews, I was not allowed to attend. I did go down to the hotel
and hang out a bit, learned some stuff which might have been great in an
oped, but nothing which could be published on Wikinews.
Another en.Wikinews contributor who does have press credentials was able
to request entry to the press sections at this fall's Apple events. He
was able to attend a number of small press conferences at the event, as
well as the major floor events, and turned in two articles about it.
News events managers do not let everyone with credentials in. They
accept candidates from news sources they feel will give them the
coverage they want. They also usually want to be able to verify press
credentials. The latter is why en.Wikinews built a policy which is
actually more stringent in some respects than our adminship policies.
The policy includes methods of credential verification including
voicemail contacts.
En.Wikinews has approved a total of 8 reporters for credentials. One
reporter has left the project, and three are currently inactive. Another
is not primarily a Wikinewsy, Sj. Currently we have one candidate for
accreditation, Fuzheado (Andrew Lih).
I encourage Mav to take a look en's policy
(
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Accreditation_policy),
verification
(
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Credential_verification), and
requests (
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Accreditation_requests).
Amgine