I'm doing similar work on the french side of the pond :), but I'm curious, how do you verify ? do you ask like press-card and stuff like this? or like just cross-check linkeding, twitter, bluesky ? skyfleet.blue/e/fr/custom-...

Here, most news orgs have a bureaucratic mess to allow their journalists to use their newsroom domain name, so do you just use domain name ?

Yeah, I'm going by domain names, I don't allow any users in it to have a .bsky.social handle.