This should viewed as a window of opportunity, not a win.

For the win, the community must now ramp up all efforts, while the iron is hot.

We need to find out who this reporter is and what organization he's with.

Emailing the organization, expressing sincere gratitude, and providing one or two sentences of powerful rhetoric (that they could adopt for the next opportunity) will have exponentially more impact than signing the petition (which should also be done).

We need that give that guy some encouragement and weapons-grade rhetorical ammo.