The expression "the world is watching" has never been so true. As well as the journalists with permanent accreditation, the Catalan Parliament's Press Service has processed some 938 extra for today for reporters, camera operators and technical staff. Of these, 358 are for professional journalists for media companies from 126 countries. As such, there are more than a thousand people with press accreditation following today's events.
According to the Parliament, this far surpasses the previous record. As such, they've had to open up many more rooms than those normally exclusively reserved for the press, to attempt to fit in all the media interested in president Carles Puigdemont's appearance in the chamber at 6pm local time this afternoon, amidst expectations he might declare independence in some form. A special space for foreign press has been set up.
Among the hundreds of accredited organisations are Al Jazeera, the BBC, BFMTV (France), Bloomberg, Clarín (Argentina), CNN, Der Spiegel, FOX TV, Le Figaro, Le Monde, The New York Times, Reuters, RAFT, Sky News, TBS (Japan), The Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, among many other.
This easily beats the previous record. On other occasions that caused much expectation, like for the approval of the laws for the referendum, accreditations didn't pass 500.
A longer list of some of the media outlets with accreditation for today:
- ABC (AUSTRALIA)
- ABC (UNITED STATES)
- AGENZIA VISTA TV (ITALY)
- AKASHI AG. (JAPAN)
- AL JAZEERA (BALKANS)
- AL JAZEERA (QATAR)
- AL JAZEERA (UNITED KINGDOM)
- AL JAZEERA INTERNATIONAL
- ANADOLU (TURKEY)
- ANSA (ITALY)
- ARD TV (GERMANY)
- ARTE TV (FRANCE)
- ASAHI SHIMBUN (JAPAN)
- ASNERP
- ASSOCIATED PRESS
- BABEL FILMS (CANADA)
- BBC
- BERLINGSKE
- BFMTV
- BLOOMBERG
- BLU RADIO (COLOMBIA)
- BNR NIEUWSRADIO (THE NETHERLANDS)
- CANAL+ FRANCE
- CBC CANADA
- CBS
- CHANNEL 1 RUSSIA
- CHANNEL 4
- CHUNICHI SHIMBUN (JAPAN)
- CITYPRESS24 (GERMANY)
- CLARÍN (ARGENTINA)
- CNBC (USA)
- CNN
- DER SPIEGEL
- DEUTSCHE WELLE (GERMANY)
- DIE ZEIT (GERMANY)
- DUTCH DAILY NEWSPAPER (THE NETHERLANDS)
- EL SOL (PORTUGAL)
- EL UNIVERSAL (MEXICO)
- EQUINOX RADIO
- EUROVISION (SWITZERLAND)
- EXPRESSEN (SWEDEN)
- FOLHA DE SAO PAULO (BRAZIL)
- FOX TV
- FRANCE 2
- FRANCE 3
- FRANCE 5
- FRANCE PRESS
- FRANCE TV
- FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE
- GETTY IMAGES (AUSTRALIA)
- GLOBOMEDIA (BRAZIL)
- HBO
- HISPAN TV
- i24NEWS
- IL FATTO QUOTIDIANO
- IRISH TIMES (IRELAND)
- ISRAEL HAYOM
- ITV NEWS (UNITED KINGDOM)
- JYLLANDS-POSTEN (DENMARK)
- LA 7 ITALIA
- LA NACION (ARGENTINA)
- LE FIGARO
- LE MONDE
- NOUVELLE OBSERVATEUR
- LE SOIR (BELGIUM)
- LIBERATION
- L'INDÉPENDANT
- MEDIAPART (FRANCE)
- MEDIASET
- MERIDIANA NOTIZIE (ITALY)
- N1 TV (CROATIA)
- NEW YORK TIMES
- NHK (JAPAN)
- NIPPON NEWS NETWORK
- NOVA TV (CROATIA)
- NOTIMEX (MEXICO)
- NRC HANDELSBLAD (THE NETHERLANDS)
- NTV (RUSSIA)
- ORF (AUSTRIA)
- POLITICO.EU
- PRESS TV
- PRESSENZA (ITALY)
- PÚBLICO (PORTUGAL)
- RADIO COLOMBIA
- RADIO NACIONAL PORTUGUESA
- RADIO NRK (NORWAY)
- RADIO PÚBLICA CIUDAD DE BUENOS AIRES
- RADIOFRANCE
- RAI
- REUTERS
- REVISTA VISAO (PORTUGAL)
- RF1 (FRANCE)
- RTL (GERMANY)
- RTL (THE NETHERLANDS)
- RTP (PORTUGAL)
- RTV (SWITZERLAND)
- RUPTLY
- RUSSIAN NEWS AGENCY IZVESTIA
- SÁGAT (NORWAY)
- SBS NEWS (AUSTRALIA)
- SCOTTISH TV
- SKY NEWS
- SUDOEST (FRANCE)
- SVERIGE RADIO (SWEDEN)
- SVT TV (SWEDEN)
- TBS (JAPAN)
- TÉLAM (ARGENTINA)
- TELESUR TV (SOUTH AMERICA)
- TELEVISA TV (MEXICO)
- TF1 (FRANCE)
- THE TIMES
- THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (USA)
- TROW (GERMANY)
- TRT TURKEY
- TTV (BELGIUM)
- TV ESLOVENIA
- TV MEGA (CHILE)
- TV ROMANIA
- VOLKSKRANT
- VRT RADIO TV (BELGIUM)
- W RAID (COLOMBIA)
- WASHINGTON POST
- ZDF (GERMANY)
- ZUMA PRESS (USA)