Could possibly a list of these accredited people be
held somewhere where we can easily check them up ?
Maybe on a page related to the press page on meta ?
Similarly, that would be odd if we receive a phone
call asking us about someone being accredited ... and
us being unable to say anything...
Ant
--- Amgine <amgine(a)saewyc.net> wrote:
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
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