@darius So maybe media organizations either have individual journalists’ pages with HTML `rel="me"` links that the latter can link to, or a single “verified” page with the same. Staff or journalists can then link to that from their profile, and if either side wants to de-affiliate with the other they remove the attribute or the link entirely.
@mjgardner yup, that is definitely the idea and one of multiple parallel solutions I'd like to see put in place!