One thing I'll preemptively put here is that often people say "Isn't the solution for a newspaper to run, say, social.nytimes.com and the journalists have accounts on there?"

That works for some subset of verification but consider:

- freelance journalists who need an *affiliation* verified but are not employees
- what happens when your employer owns your entire social media presence (you'd want to separate identities similar to how you in theory don't use work email for personal stuff)