The administration’s changes to the pool come at a moment when the White House is chipping away at the ability of major news organizations to cover it. By Michael D. Shear Michael D. Shear has ...

This development followed the White House announcement last week that it was removing the Associated Press wire service from pool coverage and close access to the president. Soon after ...

HuffPost’s White House correspondent S.V. Date had been slated to serve as the daily print pool reporter Wednesday, but the Trump administration booted him in the wee hours of the night and ...

The White House is stripping the White House Correspondents’ Association of its role in managing the White House Press Pool, taking control of deciding who will be a part of the small rotating ...

Focused on reporting the president’s actions and statements, the pool itself tends to blend into the background. But it is suddenly in the spotlight as the White House has made an unprecedented ...

What's False However, the Biden administration's changes did not cut or replace reporters in the "press pool," a small group of journalists historically selected by the White House Correspondents ...

Historically the White House Correspondents’ Association, which represents the wider press corps, has managed the pool assignments. But not anymore. Wednesday was the first day when the White ...

Late on Tuesday, HuffPost got an email from press wrangler Allison Schuster, asking which reporter would take the organization’s spot in the pool. Hours later, S.V. Date, HuffPost’s White ...

WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Tuesday that President Trump’s administration will take direct control of the composition of the daily press pool after ...

sharply criticized the White House’s decision to take over the press pool from the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA), which has governed the press pool for decades. Heinrich ...

Using slots that traditionally would be assigned to the Associated Press and Reuters, the White House added Newsmax and Blaze Media to the so-called press pool for Wednesday. And instead of the ...

Each compared Leavitt’s decision to democratize the White House press pool to the Kremlin’s actions in Russia. “Trump White House on the way to establishing its own version of a Kremlin ...