The total number of registered journalists is shown on the first page of the address book. You can get an impression of the number of journalists on the site from our email notification service. This provides journalists, who have asked to be included in the service, with an email every time a release or event is posted to the site and which matches the journalist's interests selected from the site's keywords. Referees are needed to ensure that journalists are bone fide and will keep embargoes. In the case of contributors they are our assurance that the researcher or PR officer concerned will post responsible and accurate material.
Referees are therefore a vital part of our vetting procedures.
For journalists, an editor would be acceptable or evidence of membership of a journalists' organisation. For researchers or PR officers, your head of dept. We welcome all types of journalists, scientific and non-scientific writers, freelances and journalists from the national and local media as well as the trade and technical press. Contributors have to be reporting on work carried out by a European body. The research need not necessarily have been undertaken in Europe, but it will usually have been.