{"id":18917,"date":"2013-08-01T07:26:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T11:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18917"},"modified":"2013-08-01T07:26:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T11:26:52","slug":"fia-to-keep-control-of-f1s-print-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/fia-to-keep-control-of-f1s-print-media\/","title":{"rendered":"FIA to keep control of F1&#8217;s print media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FIA is staying in control of the accreditation of F1&#8217;s print journalists.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"FIA-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-logos\/FIA-2.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"115\" \/>Before Bernie Ecclestone and Jean Todt shook hands at the Hungaroring last weekend, it was reported control of journalists had been a sticking point as they worked towards a new Concorde Agreement deal.<\/p>\n<p>We reported that, prior to their signing the memorandum of understanding, Ecclestone &#8216;has been holding out on releasing more revenue to the FIA, in exchange for more control over the accreditation of print journalists&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>But Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport reports that, despite fears Ecclestone might get the control he wants, the FIA is in fact staying in charge.<\/p>\n<p>Correspondent Michael Schmidt referred to the rumours Ecclestone wanted to put print journalists &#8220;on a short leash&#8221; after some teams and suppliers &#8220;complained about critical articles&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But the new Concorde deal &#8220;guarantees free press coverage&#8221;, Schmidt added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FIA is staying in control of the accreditation of F1&#8217;s print journalists. Before Bernie Ecclestone and Jean Todt shook hands at the Hungaroring last weekend, it was reported control of journalists had been a sticking point as they worked towards a new Concorde Agreement deal. We reported that, prior to their signing the memorandum &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,5262,5300,5340,4575,284,4286],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18918,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18917\/revisions\/18918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}