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journalist card
What is a freelance journalist card supposed to be, and where would you use it?
For events they have accreditation rules, for police lines etc,. you'd have to talk to the police. I suggest they won't do backflips offering up something so people can photograph their corrupt behaviour.
I don't recall seeing actual journalists with Press cards in their hatbands in the DR. Vs. ID issued by the station or newspaper they work for.
For events they have accreditation rules, for police lines etc,. you'd have to talk to the police. I suggest they won't do backflips offering up something so people can photograph their corrupt behaviour.
I don't recall seeing actual journalists with Press cards in their hatbands in the DR. Vs. ID issued by the station or newspaper they work for.
You may contact the CDP - Colegio Dominicano de Periodistas - and see what they suggest. Many Dominican journalists are card-carrying members.
Colegio Dominicano de Periodistas
Dr H Vicioso 1 (Malecon)
La Feria
Santo Domingo
(809) 508-1287
(809) 532-3120
(809) 533-0623
They appear to have no webpage.
Colegio Dominicano de Periodistas
Dr H Vicioso 1 (Malecon)
La Feria
Santo Domingo
(809) 508-1287
(809) 532-3120
(809) 533-0623
They appear to have no webpage.
Lifepower,what is it exactly you need to do? There is no such thing as a "freelance journalist card" but there are freelancers who have press credentials, either because they are linked somehow to the international press, or they have wrangled something through friends in the press here.
truth is, things here are pretty loose, and you can probably get by without it, but if you want some help contact me and I will see if I can advise you.
Gran Pollo -- you'd be surprised what you can photograph here --- including corruption.
truth is, things here are pretty loose, and you can probably get by without it, but if you want some help contact me and I will see if I can advise you.
Gran Pollo -- you'd be surprised what you can photograph here --- including corruption.
My point was asking the police for one (they issue them in most cities) won't likely be successful. Also many "freelance journalists" haven't published a thing and just like the credentials. I agree it is easy to photograph just about anything with manners. Asking permission does wonders.
Thanks for all answers
As you know a freelance journalist, working for several newspapers or magazines, is independant and paid "? la pige", french words for "by page published".
Specialised in fashion market, I would like to report fashion events (exhibition, fashion show) and market news, from D.R. to french magazines , and from France to D.R media.
I think I will need card or credentials to report private events, to meet the designers and companies managers...in D.R. (?)
It's necessary in Europe, fashion market is very "closed".
As you know a freelance journalist, working for several newspapers or magazines, is independant and paid "? la pige", french words for "by page published".
Specialised in fashion market, I would like to report fashion events (exhibition, fashion show) and market news, from D.R. to french magazines , and from France to D.R media.
I think I will need card or credentials to report private events, to meet the designers and companies managers...in D.R. (?)
It's necessary in Europe, fashion market is very "closed".
Like I already said, for events you have to get credentials from the organizers of the event. Not that there are a million fashion shows and such in the DR to begin with. Event B would be uninterested in some phoney card issued by someone other than them or even Event A but if you have a suitable background you should be able to get credentialed.
Paddy, there are freelance journalists, of course, but they generally write for the magazine world rather than for papers (though even the papers use them -- the NY Times has plenty). I myself work with several off and on, and they customarily have their list of client magazines with whom they regularly work, but they are not employed by any particular organ. some of these people are leading journalists. One of them was killed recently in Iraq.
Lifepower, El Gran Pollo is essentially correct, you will have to proceed on an ad hoc basis. But this is really quite easy. You simply contact the designers or Company employee in charge of PR and explain what you want. It is not so closed here as it is in other countries, you shouldnt have much trouble (provided you speak Spanish). They can even help you to attend events. It is a small network of people here, once you are acquainted with them, the procedure is automatic. DR fashion designers are beginning to get noticed, some of them have achieved world status, and I bet they would be interested in cooperating with you in order to keep that momentum going.
Like I say, if you need anything feel free to contact. I am a freelancer myself.
Lifepower, El Gran Pollo is essentially correct, you will have to proceed on an ad hoc basis. But this is really quite easy. You simply contact the designers or Company employee in charge of PR and explain what you want. It is not so closed here as it is in other countries, you shouldnt have much trouble (provided you speak Spanish). They can even help you to attend events. It is a small network of people here, once you are acquainted with them, the procedure is automatic. DR fashion designers are beginning to get noticed, some of them have achieved world status, and I bet they would be interested in cooperating with you in order to keep that momentum going.
Like I say, if you need anything feel free to contact. I am a freelancer myself.
Grande Pollo said:
Reminds me of an older brother, the eccentric one (there's always one in every family ;-). Who had among his strange pastimes, the uncanny (and sometimes dangerous too) urge to crash exclusive, high level events. Sometimes he would even challenge me to join him, which of course I refused. I noticed he had no particular set procedure or modus operandi. He played it by ear, on an ad hoc basis. And in what appeared unsurmountable odds, he would pull it off, again and again, sometimes even appearing in media pictures and newscasts of the event. I never quite grasped his art, but his histrionic abilities would have won him an Oscar. Actually, in his youth, he did stints as an actor, even played leading man, in several sold out theater presentations...
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Mirador I love that story. YOu know your brother reminds of the lead character in Woody Allen's film, Zelig, who also had this urge to crash big events and ends up in all the newsreels alongside Hitler, Churchill, Freud and all the rest.