White House Press Corps
The White House Press Corps is a group of journalists or correspondents reporting from the White House . They cover the US President , the events in the White House and the press conferences held there.
Obama's White House press secretary usually held a press conference every weekday. This took place in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room and had seating for 49 people. Each seat was assigned a news medium, each represented by a reporter. The assignment was regulated by the White House Correspondents' Association , which acts independently of the press officer and his staff.
Sean Spicer , spokesman for the Trump administration , confronted journalists with new rules at the first press conference. Traditionally, the first questions to date have gone to the Associated Press news agency and the major television stations; Spicer, however, only put the sixth question to AP; the questions before that went to the New York Post , the Christian Broadcasting Network , the Spanish-language broadcaster Univision , the conservative broadcaster Fox and American Urban Radio Networks .
Since February 2017 journalists using Skype - video conferencing outside the Press Briefing Room ask questions. Spicer announced that this step should open access to the White House for even more different media and at the same time accommodate media that cannot find resources for correspondents.
Individual references, footnotes
- ↑ a b spiegel.de: It is our intention never to lie to you
- ↑ politico.com: Here are the media's first questions for Sean Spicer
- ^ Washingtonpost.com: Via Skype, the White House press secretary fields questions from well outside the Beltway