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Journalists: here's how to get your Mastodon profile verified. (Please boost this, people!) 
Because Mastodon is self-hosted, the best way to verify your identity is to get the IT department at your org to set up a Mastodon server on your domain. For example, if you work for WIRED, your Mastodon account could be "@yourname@follow.wired.com." It's very similar to how you'd trust an email account. There's an easier alternative, though. 1/3
Setting up a server from scratch might take some time, even if you successfully lobby your org, so here's a much simpler approach:
If you already have an author/staff profile page on wired.com, and that page has a link to your Mastodon profile with `rel="me"` on the HTML tag, then you can use that link to verify your Mastodon profile. Technically speaking, this will be *super* easy to get done. 2/3
See the following page for more info on how it works, and share it with whoever manages your organization's website—and feel free to reach out directly if you have questions! 3/3