working journalist. Freelances can get them. There's a process.
But if you are a local blogger who happens to come across something you aren't going to have a press card even though I'd argue you are just as legitimate, in some ways more as a local.
Local non-journalist stumbling across a national story and getting big coverage only happens in the movies. In the real world the real journalists find out and arrive within an hour or two.
But if you are a local blogger who happens to come across something you aren't going to have a press card even though I'd argue you are just as legitimate, in some ways more as a local.