Press cards by country

The card a reporter showed at the police cordon, issued by his union, his professional body or the police.

Bearer prints it for 4 offices: France, Germany, State of New York, United Kingdom. Each is read off a document of the time or reconstructed on the country's law, and says which.

Bearer makes an investigator's papers for Call of Cthulhu and any 1920s or 1930s tabletop campaign: the passport a consul would have filled in, with the visas and frontier stamps a campaign leaves in it, and the permits, certificates and tickets of the period, to print or to share.

An example

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Every office Bearer prints it for

Each version in full

• The French press card
• The German press card
• The New York police press card
• The British press card

Sources

• Commission de la carte d'identité des journalistes professionnels; collection Frédéric Maget, photographed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, on Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0), Carte d'identité professionnelle des journalistes No. 3542, valid from 1 April 1939 to 1 April 1940, issued to Colette (Paris-Soir), Carte d'Identité Professionnelle des Journalistes (Loi du 29 mars 1935, Décret du 17 janvier 1936); the file number, name, newspaper, address, date and place of birth typed; est JOURNALISTE professionnel dans les conditions déterminées par la loi; Pour la Commission instituée par le décret du 17 Janvier 1936 et pour certification de sa décision, les deux délégués à la signature; the timbre de dimension; signature du titulaire; Valable du … au … struck with a rubber stamp; No de la carte; the photograph held by four eyelets (read directly)
• Deutsches Reich; text reproduced at klausjans.de, Schriftleitergesetz vom 4. Oktober 1933 (RGBl. I S. 713), §§ 5, 6, 8, 9, in force 1 January 1934, § 5: Schriftleiter kann nur sein, wer die deutsche Reichsangehörigkeit besitzt, die bürgerlichen Ehrenrechte nicht verloren hat, arischer Abstammung ist …; § 6: the Aryan requirement as in § 1a of the Reichsbeamtengesetz; § 8: Die Zulassung zum Schriftleiterberuf wird auf Antrag durch Eintragung in die Berufsliste der Schriftleiter bewirkt. Die Berufslisten werden bei den Landesverbänden der deutschen Presse geführt; § 9: exceptions on the application of the head of the Landesverband with the approval of the Reichsminister für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda (read directly)
• City of New York; Gothamist, Press credentials in New York City: the NYPD issued press cards until the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment took the task over on 20 January 2022, that the police department issued the city's press cards, for crossing police lines; nothing about the cards of the twenties or thirties (secondary source)
• Encyclopaedia Britannica; Archives Hub (Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick), National Union of Journalists (founded 1907); its press card recognised by the police forces of the United Kingdom, the union's founding in 1907 and its press card of later years; nothing about a card of the interwar years (secondary source)

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