NASA’s formal policy that standardizes the criteria and process for media accreditation agencywide.
As called for in National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, NASA is charged to “…provide for the widest practicable and appropriate dissemination of information concerning its activities and the results thereof.” As a publicly-funded U.S. government agency, NASA is committed to making access to its facilities and personnel as open as possible. Therefore, it is the policy of NASA’s Office of Communications and the communications organizations at all NASA centers and locations to provide accreditation to representatives of the media, along with necessary virtual and on-site access to agency facilities and officials within available resources.
Professional News Media
Applicant must be employed or performing work on behalf of such news-gathering and distribution organizations as: newspapers, magazines, trade newsletters, television and radio stations, independent production companies with approved projects, and internet news sites. To be given NASA media credentials, individuals from these organizations must be full or part-time professional media (i.e. receive external payment for researching and reporting news/commentary/analysis/informational content). Media must report for the outlet they are credentialed under. Individuals not employed by such organizations will be considered freelancers.
Internet Organizations
Organizations only on the Internet must be able to show:
Enterprise reporting of news/commentary/analysis/informational content – not an aggregat …