Media Center

The Torino Piemonte Media Center is where all the non-accredited journalists go. Non-accredited in this case, means they are not part of the official paid coverage. Media organizations pay rights to cover the sports and for access to all the venues, and are located in the International Broadcast Center or the Main Broadcast Center. So, unaccredited does not mean (as I first thought), non-traditional media like citizen journalists that myself, Kris, and Robert are representing, but rather all those that have not paid rights. Even the major media organizations, such as CBC, New York Times, BBC, etc., only have a limited number of accredited media, and all their extra journalists use the Media Center as their base camp. They cover all those elements of the Games that are not the sporting events. For example, press conferences covering the bands that are playing at the Medal Center are held at the non-accredited center.

Two short videos explaining what the process is for sampling the food and wine from the Piemonte region. See http://www.regione.piemonte.it/