To answer Anthony, yes accredited reporters have requested and gained entry to press events - admittedly of the cattle call variety.

The snip below from message to Mav on Wikinews-l. Note the Credentials Verification page includes the complete list of en.wikinews accredited reporters.

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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).