A Gadfly Becomes Persona Non Grata in City Hall - New York Times

But administration officials say that they denied the applications of both Mr. Martínez Alequin and Mr. Levitt because they did not show a need to cover breaking news for a legitimate news organization. “An individual’s declaration that they are a news-gathering organization does not make it so,” said Paul J. Browne, a Police Department spokesman. The definition of a news organization appears to be part of the dispute. Reporters who write for online publications, for instance, have generally been recognized only if those publications are divisions of traditional news outlets.