WORKPRESS UNION AT THE SERVICE OF JOURNALISTS INDEPENDENTS

WorkPress Membership professionalizes, facilitates and values your press activities.

A network at the service of independent media and journalists:
Journalist – Photographer – Videographer – Blogger – Podcaster – Selfie Journalist – Digital media – Press agency – Radio/TV – Network media

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Advantages of Press Status

A Protective Professional Status

WorkPress Union Membership offers media collaborators and independent journalists the benefit of a press status (Reporter’s privilege) recognized internationally. This press status guarantees and legalizes:

The right to investigate and research information. The ability to take pictures in public spaces and publish them without constraints.
The right to disseminate this information to a wide audience regardless of the distribution medium: online publication, radio/TV, blog, social networks…
The right to sell all or part of your copyright: articles, reports, illustrations, photos, videos, posts, reports…
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Free Press Card for Members

A free press card is offered to all members. This internationally recognized press card (1) attests to your press status and the protections (Reporter’s privilege) provided by national legislation and international treaties.

A choice of many Union colleges (2) corresponds to your main professional activity and the free services associated with them.

(1) Defined by DIRECTIVE 2013/55/EU of November 20, 2013 on professional activities.

(2) All formats of Union press cards (PVC, eCard, Mobile App) comply with CertiDoc & Digital Identity Certification ISO/IEC 17024 standards.

Membership prices

Journalist and Media Accreditation Requests

Press accreditation request

The trade union network offers members of the newsrooms a telesecretariat service which manages and formalizes Press accreditation requests, photo coverage of an event, Interview requests, etc.

Thousands of journalists and hundreds of media use this multilingual telesecretariat service to facilitate the management and formalization of their accreditation request. (1)

Created by and for its users, these multilingual accreditation services benefit from 12 years of feedback.

(1) The “Accreditation requests” portal is reserved for Members of the editorial staff of the media who use the service. However, freelancers or freelancers can apply to be attached to the editorial staff of a partner media as a press correspondent. They will thus have access to the “Accreditation request” service.

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Facilitate your activities and press coverage

Become a press correspondent?

Press correspondent’s advantages

Your attachment to the editorial staff of a media (press agency, photo agency, etc.) as a “freelance partner” will bring you many advantages.

Indeed, your attachment to a newsroom will formalize your accreditation requests and event coverage.

This will allow you to develop your activities while maintaining the independence of a “freelance partner”.

Register your copyrights (almost) for free?

Members of our Syndicat have access to a private cloud dedicated to real-time registration of their copyright with the Copyright Services.

A simple, free registration process that will guarantee U.S. Copyright protection worldwide.
Free US Copyright registration: The Cloud and blockchain of Copyright Services register and certify the date of your creations.
Three levels of Certificate will be mobilized according to your needs: Copyright fixation dating (blockchain), Certificate of publication (US & EU legal deposit, ISSN) and the Certificate of nominative registration issued by the Copyright Office.

Access to these mutualized registration, filing, certification and legal assistance services are exclusively dedicated to protecting the creations of a member of the Syndicate(Journalist or Media Group). Free registrations are offered for the following filing classes: Text, Photography, Video, Cartoon, Graphic design, Illustrations, Audiovisual report, Podcast…

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Messagerie e-mail For-Press-Only®

WorkPress journalists’ union : e-mail For-Press-Only ®

For-Press-Only e-mail messaging

The WorkPress network and 47 unions or associations, offer their members secure, encrypted messaging services on Internet domains exclusively reserved for the press.

A highly secure, encrypted e-mail account : 9 € / Year

The WorkPress union pays, more than 50% of the cost of subscribing to a For-Press-Only® e-mail account.

An e-mail address on an Internet domain reserved for journalists provides immediate recognition of one’s profession. Example: votre_nom@photojournalist.press, …@fotojournalist.media, …@media-reporter.com, etc.
This way, the sender “a.martin-la-tribune@ch.journaliste.press” will be identified by the e-mail recipient as a Swiss journalist from the daily “la Tribune”.

Professionalize your press activities with the services offered by the WorkPress network to members working in over 80 countries.

Journalist’s privilege
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The Press Statute places your activities under the protection of international rights and treaties granted to the press (journalist’s privilege ) in any democratic country.

Free Press Card
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Every member receives a Free Press Card recognized by 153 states. This international press card will attest to your 24/7/365 Press Status (QR code CERTIdoc).

Exclusive services reserved for Members Workpress journalists’ union.

Simplified US Copyright filings / Management of press accreditation requests / Encrypted and secure For-Press-Only messaging and other useful services…

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