Lars Aronsson wrote:
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?
The Wikinewsies revoke their credentials, of course. We have a process on Wikipedia (at least on en:) for removing Administrator access when admins abuse it, so I see no reason why Wikinewsies can't remove credentials from those who abuse them through a similar process. If it's some sort of dire emergency it can be temporarily done by fiat to speed things up, of course (the way developers can de-admin someone without waiting if it's a major problem).
-Mark