In Latest VotingNews #85, it was reported how the Pentagon's Directorate for Freedom of Information and Security Review (now the Office of Freedom of Information and Security Review [OFOISR]) ruled that SERVE's most attentive reporter was not a "representative of the news media" and how the disappointed reporter appealed its decision.

Three weeks later, the Pentagon granted the reporter's appeal of its initial decision and declared that, because he does indeed maintain a website "organized and operated to disseminate [news] to the general public" and because he doesn't merely transmit "information gathered elsewhere" but adds "journalistic value to the information," it had determined that he had met "the criteria for a representative of the news media."

You can see and read an image of the letter from the Pentagon's Office of Freedom of Information and Security Review (DFOISR) reclassifying the reporter from "other" status to "representative of the news media" status by clicking here.

A blurb and a poll about this case, titled "When is a Web Reporter NOT a Reporter?", appear on the e-thePeople web site. The poll is closed now, but you might want to see the results.