this is interesting i think it's fine to claim airdrops as a journo when the project is giving to your address and doesn't know it's you (e.g. based on onchain history) but giving specifically to journalists would fall under journalism gift rules and would have to be rejected

and if they took the payments from this project, they would either need to avoid covering Succinct or disclose it on every article

my other question is why did they do this for blockworks? Bcos they're close to the team or is yano a seed investor again?

looks like he's not a seed investor, per his website