NEW YEAR’S EVE MEDIA INFORMATION FOR FOREIGN PRESS

Covering New Year’s Eve as a foreign journalist has never been easier! The Times Square Alliance will be working in partnership with the Foreign Press Center to facilitate foreign press coverage of New Years Eve 2008. If you are interested in covering the New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square, the Times Square Alliance is now taking requests from the foreign media for spaces near the media riser in Duffy Square. The media locations will be in the same block as the main stage for Times Square New Year’s Eve. In addition to standard NYPD credentials, you will also require a special credential for access to this area.

The links below will direct you to the appropriate contacts for obtaining credentials:

• I-Visa Holders   Resident foreign journalists must possess the State Department Foreign Press Center credential. If you are unsure of your status, email Sal Scrimenti at ScrimentiS@state.gov. If you are NOT registered with the Foreign Press Center, click here to find out how to register.

How to Obtain a Credential to Cover New Year’s Eve Celebration in Times Square: 

If you DO NOT have a NYPD press credential, you must complete items 1 through 4 below, AND the temporary NYPD press credential application.  The application can be found here:  http://www.timessquarenyc.org/nye/nye_TempCredentials.html

Those journalists MUST then bring their completed application and all other documents in person to the Foreign Press Center. You cannot fax the application because it requires photos.

If you HAVE a NYPD press credential, please do the following:

• Email Sal Scrimenti at ScrimentiS@state.gov with the names of ALL credentialed journalists in your organization who will cover the event.
• Indicate if all journalists have a NYPD press credential.

 

Your application for a temporary NYPD press credential must be received no later than 12 noon on Thursday, December 20, 2007.