EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT NEW YORK CITY PRESS CREDENTIALS AND 'THE MANGIONISTA' CONTROVERSY

May 20, 2026

Deep-dive into press credentials issued by the City of New York, from fire cards to NYPD-issued press credentials, pre-Digital Age press credential requirements, bloggers' fight for Digital Age press credentials that recognized them as legitimate journalists, to reform of the way the NYPD grants suspends and revokes press credentials by adding substantive limits and due process safeguards, the City Council's 2021 transfer of press credentialing from the NYPD to the Mayor's Office, the fake 'Mangionista' controversy, and the present-day, actual controversy over new ways the Mayor's Office and the NYPD are devising to restrict and shape news coverage.