The interesting question is what happens when one Wikinews reporter abuses her credentials? Say for example that you are let into a press conference, and there you start to throw eggs and tomatoes on the politician. Who apologizes to the organizers? Who revokes the credentials for the reporter who misbehaved? Who promises that this won't happen again?
Is it any different to someone going to a conference to talk about Wikipedia? It will be generally be assumed they're representing the Foundation, even though there was no community or Board approval for them to go there and do that. Why couldn't the people making the apology be the same people giving out the credentials - that is the community itself.
Angela.